Dir: David Lean
1962
*****
David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia is an incredible film, the quintessential epic. It's hard find any fault with it really, unless of course it doesn't happen to be your kind of film. T. E. Lawrence is a fascinating and complex character, Peter O'Toole played him brilliantly as best as anyone could, balancing his eccentricities and madness perfectly but without ever mixing the two, as there is a big difference. Lawrence of Arabia is also one of the most beautifully filmed movies of all time, often criticised for it's length but worth every single second of its 172 odd minutes in my opinion. It's a masterpiece, but you (should) already know this.
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