Name: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Keeping the Score Series
Start: 2025-05-18T11:00:00-04:00
Location: Princeton Garden Theatre

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | Keeping the Score Series

Our year-long Keeping the Score Series continues with an iconic film that must be experienced on the big screen--LAWRENCE OF ARABIA! 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀: princetongardentheatre.org/specials
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is a sprawling epic about the adventures of British intelligence officer T.E. Lawrence in the Middle East during World War I. The film is exciting, spectacularly beautiful and, needless to say, was meant to be seen on the big screen. Peter O’Toole is astonishing — his piercing blue eyes and commanding presence highlight one of the most memorable performances of movie history.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲: Director David Lean considered several composers for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, including the Bridge on the River Kwai composer Malcolm Arnold and Broadway legend Richard Rodgers, before hearing French composer Maurice Jarre’s treatment “The Theme from Lawrence of Arabia”. He hired Jarre to write music for the entire film, a score which won one of the film’s seven Academy Awards. LAWRENCE’S strings-heavy work is a playful and sweeping symphony, capturing the grandeur of Lean’s stunning desert vistas. Jarre also cleverly underscores the grandiloquence and ego driving the film’s elusive protagonist, T.E. Lawrence, whose precise motivations fuel the film’s central mystery. Lean and Jarre would work together on other films like Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India, forming one of cinema’s most significant collaborations between director and composer.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀:Be it a gentle piano interlude or a glorious orchestral fanfare, no element of filmcraft sets a movie’s tone and identity quite like the musical score. Film music has the power to underline a filmmaker’s narrative ideas, forge our bond to a heroic character, and move us to the point of tears. Join us all year long as we showcase cinema’s iconic composers whose musical talents enrich the images we see on screen and have us humming their unforgettable melodies as we exit the auditorium.
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