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David Lean's masterpiece--perhaps the greatest of screen epics--stars Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history. The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts, immense, intractable, ever-.. Read more

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  Lawrence of Arabia takes epic gong

  • 22 Apr 2004

  Cinema classic "Lawrence of Arabia" has been named as the best epic film in a new Total Film top 50. David Lean's 1962 film beat off stiff competition from the likes of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings to claim top spot in a Total Film magazine list. As well as winning multiple Oscars, the film also propelled actors Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif into the limelight. O'Toole was nominated for his first Oscar for his performance, before going on to be in contention for six more gongs to... Read more

  

  Citizen Kane voted top American film

  • 22 Jun 2007

  Legendary 1941 drama Citizen Kane has been named as the best American film ever in a recent poll, it has been announced. The 100 Years 100 Movies poll took place ten years after the American Film Institute's first ballot to find the greatest movies of all time - and Citizen Kane pipped The Godfather to the post to be voted number one. War romance Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, was named as the third most popular film, while Raging Bull and Singin' in the Rain were... Read more

  

  Time magazine chooses 100 greatest films

  • 23 May 2005

  Two movie critics for Time magazine have come up with their version of the 100 greatest films of all-time. Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss have compiled the list to show there is no definitive ranking system that can cater for everybody's individual tastes. The exclusion of traditionally admired films such as North by Northwest and Apocalypse Now go some way to indicating this. Schickel said: "100 lists are fun to discuss, fun to argue over. I don't think anybody should say, 'That's... Read more

  

  Venus

  • 19 Jan 2007

  Premiere magazine recently rated Peter O'Toole's performance in Lawrence of Arabia the greatest ever committed to celluloid. It was his fourth film, his first lead, and a hell of a break - though he lost the Oscar to Gregory Peck and To Kill a Mockingbird. He's been nominated six times since (for Becket, The Lion in Winter, Goodbye Mr Chips, The Ruling Class, The Stunt Man, and My Favourite Year), and famously never won, except for an Honorary Award in 2003. 'I'm still in the game,' he... Read more

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    David Lean's masterpiece--perhaps the greatest of screen epics--stars Peter O'Toole in one of the most electrifying debuts in film history. The film is less an ordinary adventure than an experience that leaves an overwhelming sense of the struggle between two powerful forces: the Arabian deserts, ...