LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Date: Sun, July 26th 2009Additional Time Info: 7:30 p.m.
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
Presented in stunning 70mm!
#7 on AFI 100 Years . . . 100 Movies
Every Sunday at 7:30,
July 5 through August 30
David Lean's towering achievement, winning seven Oscars in 1962 including Best Picture, and the film that made a then-unknown Peter O'Toole an international star. The role gave him the first of eight Oscar nominations for Best Actor--none of which he won. O'Toole is riveting as T.E. Lawrence, the legendary British officer who rallied the Arabs against Turkish invaders during World War I, and Lean's film, a two-year undertaking shot entirely on location, is one of the true masterpieces of 70mm photography. With Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif.
DIR David Lean; SCR Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson; PROD Robert A. Harris, Sam Spiegel. UK, 1962, color, 227 min. with an intermission. In English, Arabic and Turkish with English subtitles. RATED PG
