Lawrence of Arabia (Restored Version)

This is an epic, not just because it runs nearly four hours, but because of the measured and deliberate pacing, tangible sets and action sequences, and the willingness to explore humankind’s folly due to pride and greed.

The film is impeccably designed from every element on the screen, and words can often fail to accurately describe the elegance that is crafted.

This motion picture is unlike any epic because after enduring so many perils in an enormous journey, the size of which had never been seen in a Hollywood production, the questions about T.E. Lawrence remain.

The film’s real protagonist is the Arabian Desert -- a state of physical oppression and a state of mind made as compelling for the moviegoer as it must have been for Lawrence himself.

Of camels and men