7 April 04
Rewatching Lawrence
Inspired by last week’s outing to see “Hidalgo” (an entertaining horse movie featuring Viggo Mortensen riding across the desert), we just watched “Lawrence of Arabia” again, having found the DVD at the library this weekend. It remains an amazing film, an epic which after 42 years hasn’t lost a bit of its power. I love the shots of the desert, the horses, the camels (the greatest camel movie of all time).
Favorite T.E. Lawrence fact: in the summer of 1908 he rode his bicycle 2,400 miles around France for his study of Crusader castles which he wrote up in his thesis at Oxford completed in 1910.
- What exactly is LoA’s competition in the camel movie genre?— Chris Clarke 8. April 2004, 06:37 Link
- I was wondering that myself, Chris.— Pica 8. April 2004, 07:11 Link
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