Lawrence of Arabia is one of those classic movies that I’ve always meant to get around to seeing some day. Conveniently, we now live very close to the famous Castro Theater, which shows all sorts of interesting movies. (I saw Vertigo there a while ago as well, along with a very strange film called I’m So Excited, but didn’t get a chance to review them before they faded.) On this occasion they were showing Lawrence as a double-feature with Dr. Zhivago, though I’m guessing very few people actually stayed for seven hours of movie.

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