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Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s Iconic Classic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Available on 4K ULTRA HD Steelbook June 7th

“No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”

Peter O’Toole in David Lean’s Iconic Classic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) will be available on 4K ULTRA HD Steelbook June 7th

Celebrating its 60^th anniversary. Winner of 7 Academy Awards^® including Best Picture of 1962, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA stands as one of the most timeless and essential motion picture masterpieces. The greatest achievement of its legendary, Oscar^®-winning director, David Lean (1962, Lawrence of Arabia; 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai), the film stars Peter O’Toole — in his career-making performance — as T.E. Lawrence, the audacious World War I British army officer who heroically united rival Arab desert tribes and led them to war against the mighty Turkish Empire. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 1962, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography [Color], Best Art Direction-Set Decoration [Color], Best Film Editing, Best Music [Score] and Best Sound.

BONUS MATERIALS

Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, fully restored from the original camera negative
- Feature split across two 4K Ultra HD discs
Dolby Atmos + 5.1 audio

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA BLU-RAY FEATURE DISC

Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
5.1 audio
Special Feature:
- Secrets of Arabia: Feature-Length Picture-in-Graphics Track

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURE DISC

Peter O’Toole Revisits Lawrence of Arabia
Making of Lawrence of Arabia Documentary
Deleted Balcony Scene with Introduction by Anne V. Coates
The Lure of the Desert: Martin Scorsese on Lawrence of Arabia
A Conversation with Steven Spielberg
Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic (1963 & 1970 Versions)
Maan, Jordan: The Camels Are Cast
In Search of Lawrence
Romance of Arabia
King Hussein Visits Lawrence of Arabia Set
In Love with the Desert Documentary
Lawrence at 50: A Classic Restored
Archival Interviews
- Steven Spielberg on Lawrence of Arabia
- William Friedkin on Lawrence of Arabia
- Sydney Pollack on Lawrence of Arabia
New York Premiere Footage
Advertising Campaigns
Vintage Trailers & TV Spots

Directed By: David Lean
Produced by: Sam Spiegel
Screenplay by: Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson
Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif, Peter O’Toole

The Criterion Collection – Frederico Fellini’s LA STRADA Available on 4k and Blu-ray November 2nd

“What a funny face! Are you a woman, really? Or an artichoke?”

Frederico Fellini’s LA STRADA (1954) will available on 4k and Blu-ray as part of The Criterion Collection November 2nd

With this breakthrough film, Federico Fellini launched both himself and his wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina to international stardom, breaking with the neorealism of his early career in favor of a personal, poetic vision of life as a bittersweet carnival. The infinitely expressive Masina registers both childlike wonder and heartbreaking despair as Gelsomina, loyal companion to the traveling strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn, in a toweringly physical performance), whose callousness and brutality gradually wear down her gentle spirit. Winner of the very first Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, La strada possesses the purity and timeless resonance of a fable and remains one of cinema’s most exquisitely moving visions of humanity struggling to survive in the face of life’s cruelties.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration, undertaken in collaboration with The Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

• Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack, featuring the voices of Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart

• Audio commentary from 2003 by Peter Bondanella, author of The Cinema of Federico Fellini

• Introduction from 2003 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese

• Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile, a documentary from 2004

• Federico Fellini’s Autobiography, a documentary originally broadcast on Italian television in 2000• Trailer

• PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland
1954

• 108 MINUTES

• BLACK & WHITE

• MONAURAL

• IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

• 1.37:1 ASPECT RATIO

Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson in GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN Available on Blu-ray June 15th from Warner Archive

Anthony Quinn and Charles Bronson in GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN (1968) will be available on Blu-ray June 15th from Warner Archive.

Leon Alastray (Anthony Quinn), a rebel on the run from the Mexican Army, escapes to the remote village of San Sebastian, where locals believe he’s a holy man. Finding the area devastated by savage Yaqui attacks and the presence of a separate enemy – Teclo (Charles Bronson), a man with his own shocking secret – Leon reveals his true identity and leads the villagers against the deadly threat. As the people of San Sebastian prepare for an explosive fight, they must gather courage to reclaim their town.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in LAST ACTION HERO Available on 4K Ultra HD May 18th

Arnold Schwarzenegger in LAST ACTION HERO will be available on 4K Ultra HD May 18th

Young Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) is a lonely 11-year-old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by watchingthe action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a special ticket to the new Slater film, Danny is magically transported into Jack’s world, where the good guys always win. Danny becomes his helper as Jack battles a trio of nefarious bad guys, Benedict (Charles Dance), Vivaldi (Anthony Quinn) and The Ripper (Tom Noonan). But things get out of hand when Benedict steals Danny’s magic ticket stub and transports himself into the real world, where crime can, and often does, pay. Jack and Danny must leave fictional Los Angeles for real-life New York and battle the villains without the aid of movie magic or stuntmen.

DISC DETAILS & BONUS MATERIALS

4K ULTRA HD DISC

Newly remastered in 4K resolution from the original camera negative, with HDR10
All-new Dolby Atmos audio + the original theatrical SDDS mix presented as 5.1 + original theatrical stereo audio
Audio Commentary with Director John McTiernan
Deleted & Alternate Scenes (presented in 4K with HDR10)
Alternate Ending (presented in 4K with HDR10)
“Big Gun” Music Video by AC/DC
Original Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
Theatrical Teaser

SET ALSO INCLUDES BLU-RAY & DIGITAL

*From a 2019 SPHE fan poll and over 30,000 responses, LAST ACTION HERO was the most selected movie when participants were asked to choose from a list of possible 4K UHD disc releases.

CAST AND CREW

Directed By: John McTiernan

Story By: Zak Penn & Adam Leff

Screenplay By: Shane Black & David Arnott

Producers: Steve Roth and John McTiernan

Executive Producer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae, Tom Noonan, Robert Prosky, Anthony Quinn, Mercedes Ruehl, Austin O’Brien

Widescreen Marvel LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Returns to Movie Theaters

One of cinema’s most magnificent and visually stunning achievements, Lawrence of Arabia will return to movie theaters nationwide for two days only – a film made to be seen on the big screen will be presented by Fathom Events as part of the TCM Big Screen Classics series. Lawrence of Arabia will be presented digitally in 4K from a meticulous restoration that utilized 8K scans of the original 65mm negative; the picture was painstakingly restored to remove the damage, deterioration and fading the negative had experienced over 50 years.

Movie lovers can experience Lawrence of Arabia in its original 2.20:1 aspect ratio and in remastered 5.1 audio, along with the film’s sweeping original overture and intermission music by Maurice Jarre.

At once sophisticated and adventurous, literary and epic – and always strikingly visual – Lawrence of Arabia stars Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who unites the Arabic Empire to fight against the Turks. Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif co-star in the film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson and produced by Sam Spiegel. Lawrence of Arabia received seven Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Director. Adding to the thrill of this big-screen spectacle, TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz will provide commentary before and after the feature.

Presented by Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Sony Pictures

Sunday, September 1, 2019 – 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. (local time)

Tickets for Lawrence of Arabia can be purchased at www.FathomEvents.com or participating theater box offices. Fans throughout the U.S. will be able to enjoy the event in more than 600 movie theaters through Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network (DBN). For a complete list of theater locations visit the Fathom Events website (participating theaters are subject to change).

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Screens September 21st at The Tivoli – ‘Classics in the Loop’

“No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.”

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA screens Wednesday September 21st at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.

“Greatest biopic ever”…”Genius in 70mm”…”A Miracle of a Movie”…

All these statements were said somewhere about director David Lean’s LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and it’s understandable. It was some kind of madness to make a movie like this in 1962. Working in the middle of desert for such a long time, those extraordinary ways of cinematographer Freddie Young, and working with that huge number of actors (and camels).

But it all worked. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is more than a glorious, expensive, old biopic movie. It’s just the ultimate movie about desert. I can feel the rays of the burning sun of Arabia desert every time i watch the movie, even if I’m watching it on a small screen. Okay, the script by Robert Bolt works because it doesn’t try to solve the mystery about Lawrence. At the end of the movie we still don’t know much about this guy. Compare it with another biopics that try to tell everything about the character they are depicting. Lawrence keeps the mystery and looks fresh every time you see it, just like CITIZEN KANE.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is one of those movies that define what great acting is. Some legendary actors play some legendary characters. Peter O’Toole shines all through the movie and shines eternally for the rest of cinema. If this was his one and only movie he still would be one of the greatest screen actors ever. Still, Alec Guinness may be the best of the best here. The way he shows the founder of Saudi kingdom is just unforgettable, funny and awesome all at the same time. Omar Sharif is excellent too as the macho Arabian who falls for Lawrence and Anthony Quinn arguably plays the ultimate wild, uncivilized man.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is the perfect big-screen movie experience. It’s overlong there are almost no women in the movie and it leaves many questions unanswered. It’s one of those very special works of art in the history of cinema that will always be praised and you’ll have the chance to experience it in all its big-screen glory when it screens Wednesday night at the Tivoli.

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:

Sept. 28 LA DOLCE VITA

Oct. 5 THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)

Oct. 12 GONE WITH THE WIND

Oct. 19 SEVEN SAMURAI

Oct. 26 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

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