Lawrence of Arabia Articles

Film editor Anne V. Coates (top); John Hurt in The Elephant Man (middle); Diane Lane, Richard Gere in Unfaithful (bottom) Legendary film editor Anne Coates, 83, will be the subject of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ "Perspectives on Editing – Anne Coates: Profile of an Editing Master" on Wednesday, October 14, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater [...]

Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84. Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was [...]

Mike Hodges‘ 1971 thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and some scary-looking weaponry, was selected as Britain’s very best movie ever according to twenty-five British film critics polled by Total Film magazine. To say that was a surprising choice — not a David Lean drama or an Alfred Hitchcock thriller? — would be an understatement. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), [...]