David Lean – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lawrence, a lieutenant in the British Army, is asked by Colonel Brighton to moderately assess Faisal, their ally. Lawrence is impressed with Faisal and seeks his help to plan an attack on the enemy.
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote:
David Lean’s 1962 spectacle about T.E. Lawrence’s military career between 1916 and ’18, written by Robert Bolt and produced by Sam Spiegel, remains one of the most intelligent, handsome, and influential of all war epics. Combining the scenic splendor of De Mille with virtues of the English theater, Lean endeared himself to English professors and action buffs alike. The film won seven Oscars, including best picture and direction, yet the ideological crassness of De Mille and most war movies isn’t so much transcended as given a high gloss: the film’s subject is basically the White Man’s Burden—despite ironic notations—with Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, and Omar Sharif called upon to represent the Arab soul, and Jose Ferrer embodying the savage Turks. The all-male cast helps make this one of the most homoerotic of all screen epics, though the characters’ sexual experiences are at best only hinted at.
Lawrence.of.Arabia.1962.576p.BluRay.x264.AC3.5.1-TBB.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 3h 47mn
Size: 8.46 GiB
Video
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Resolution: 1024x468
Aspect ratio: 2.2:1
Frame rate: 23.976 fps
Bit rate: 4 782 Kbps
BPP: 0.416
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Subtitles:English, Danish, Turkish, Estonian, Swedish, Hebrew, Dutch, Greek, Vietnamese, Spanish, Slovenian, French, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese
It was clearly unfair, but still funny: I always remember the major (New York ?) film critic who wrote in his review something like “Four hours of landscape studies of the Arabian Desert, some of them suitable for framing.”