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Lawrence of Arabia - Two Disc Set [DVD] [1962]
starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif
directed by: David Lean
directed by: David Lean
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Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.20:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5035822005594 Format: PAL, Widescreen Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: April 09, 2001 Running Time: 218 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 1963 |
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List Price: £24.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £3.99 You Save: £21.00 (84%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.98 Third Party New Price: £3.43 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. --Gary S Dalkin
On the DVD: This vast movie is spread leisurely across two discs, with Maurice Jarre's overture standing in as intermission music for the first track of disc two. But the clarity of the anamorphic widescreen picture and Dolby 5.1 soundtrack justify the decision not to cram the whole thing onto one side of a disc. The movie has never looked nor sounded better than here: the desert landscapes are incredibly detailed, with the tiny nomadic figures in the far distance clearly visible on the small screen; the remastered soundtrack, too, is a joy. Thanks are due to Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg who supervised (and financed) the restoration of the picture in 1989; on disc two Spielberg chats about why David Lean is his favourite director, and why Lawrence had such a profound influence on him both as a child and as a filmmaker (he regularly re-watches the movie before starting any new project). Other features include an excellent and exhaustive "making-of" documentary with contributions from surviving cast and crew (an avuncular Omar Sharif is particularly entertaining as he reminisces about meeting the hawk-like Lean for the first time), some contemporary featurettes designed to promote the movie and a DVD-ROM facility. The extra features are good--especially the documentary--but the breathtaking quality of both anamorphic picture and digital sound are what make this DVD package a triumph. --Mark Walker
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- Lawrence of Arabia (twin DVD)My partner saw this film when originally released in Leicester Square, London, huge screen etc. he said that it was just fantastic.
I was concerned that this reworking using DVD's to be shown on a comparatively small TV screen at home would be a let-down BUT it worked very well indeed down to the intermission (change DVD), which is needed because it's a long film.
John was so pleased that his clear memory of the experience and the general impact that this film had on him was left undiminished, ... Read More
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- THE BEST MOVIE, THE SECOND BEST DVDThe four stars are given out of frustration for the delay of the blu ray version that was promised to appear two years ago. As a film, this is my number one choice as the best film ever. The current eddition is not bad but this is the kind of film to be seen on large screen, otherwise a lot of its magic will diminish. A projector and large screen are thus neccessary and hence the blu ray version is also neccessary. I had some views from the blu ray version is DVDs bought two years ago and I don't know what is ... Read More
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- JUST THE BEST !Put quite simply, the best film ever made by anyone at any time. I almost know the script by heart I have watched it so many times and it NEVER disappoints.
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- Do you always wear your cap in the mess Lawrence??Lawrence's tranformation from zero to hero is a tale that many of the youngsters saturated with the hollywood garbage of 90 mins thrills and spills might actually appreciate, along with the camp Lawro who turns harder than iron, it is surprising that this story hasn't yet been remade into hollytripe, I guess noone from Hollywood has had the patience to sit through it as it is longer than 90mins. Unfortunately, I think the film is tarnished with the desperation to include the big stars, who's performances are ... Read More
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- Disappointing transferMany of the reviews here seem to be of the DVD / Movie. This is of the music soundtrack.
Having had the vinyl of the original soundtrack since the beginning, I know the music extremely well. This CD version, by Castle, sounds as if it has been recorded from a rather poor worn out vinyl with distortion and slight ebbing and flowing of volume levels. I have just bought the Varèse Sarabande version, second-hand, and it is superior. Perhaps a touch of boominess in the bass, but it has the atmosphere and much ... Read More
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