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Lawrence of Arabia (Single Disc Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767898805
Format: Anamorphic, Subtitled, Color, Dolby
ISBN: 076789880X
Label: Columbia Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundSpanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
MPN: D09431D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Running Time: 218 minutes
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
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Editorial Review:
There's no getting around a simple, basic truth: watching Lawrence of Arabia in any home-video format represents a compromise. There's no better way to appreciate this epic biographical adventure than to see it projected in 70 millimeter onto a huge theater screen. That caveat aside, David Lean's masterful "desert classic" is still enjoyable on the small screen, especially if viewed in widescreen format. (If your only option is to view a "pan & scan" version, it's best not to bother; this is a film for which the widescreen format is utterly mandatory.) Peter O'Toole gives a star-making performance as T.E. Lawrence, the eccentric British officer who united the desert tribes of Arabia against the Turks during World War I. Lean orchestrates sweeping battle sequences and breathtaking action, but the film is really about the adventures and trials that transform Lawrence into a legendary man of the desert. Lean traces this transformation on a vast canvas of awesome physicality; no other movie has captured the expanse of the desert with such scope and grandeur. Equally important is the psychology of Lawrence, who remains an enigma even as we grasp his identification with the desert. Perhaps the greatest triumph of this landmark film is that Lean has conveyed the romance, danger, and allure of the desert with such physical and emotional power. It's a film about a man who leads one life but is irresistibly drawn to another, where his greatness and mystery are allowed to flourish in equal measure. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  - LAWRENCE
This is the greatest film ever made.Yes, better than "Gone With The Wind", better than "Citizen Kane," better than... you name it. It has the scope and vision of an epic, which for me is still Hollywood's grandest contribution to the art form. Small pictures can have a more personal impact, but the epic cannot really be made in a studio built off of one's garage. Spielberg and company have probably destroyed the genre with their digital monkey business; the true epic requires large casts and locations ... Read More
Rating: - Lawrence of Arabia
Owned this as video. Wanted the clearer Def of DVD.This a pic that is a classic, I watch and re-watch from time to time. No devotee of really great films should be without...
Rating: - 5 stars for movie, 4 1/2 stars for DVD
The Columbia Classics Collector's Edition of "Lawrence of Arabia" is the best version on DVD.
I just discovered this film a few years ago, when the Superbit version was out of print and the Limited Edition was not only expensive, but was infamous for its inaccurate colors. I bought the single disc DVD, and was very pleased with it. However, it had no extra features.
Using various website reviews and side-by-side image comparisons, I have come to the conclusion that the Superbit ... Read More
Rating: - Lawrence of Arabia
This winner of 7 Academy Award including 1962 Best Picture is magnificent. The scenery breath taking,Peter O'Tool along with Omar Sharif Jack Hawkins,Jose Ferrer and Claude Rains together with all of the wonderful actors makes "Laqwrence of Arabia"one DVD worthy of a place of honor in our DVD collection
Rating: - An Unlikely Masterpiece
I find it amazing this movie was ever made. A three-and-a-half hour epic about a strange, masochistic, messianic, probably gay, possibly mentally disturbed British military officer having an identity crisis while going native & riding a camel back and forth in the desert in the wrong theater of a major war. I wonder how David Lean pitched this thing to Columbia Studios in the first place.
There is not one word of dialogue spoken by any female in the entire movie. The movie was made by a ... Read More
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