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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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The Projectionist in Lawrence of Arabia

The projectionist was a key figure who felt themselves to be representative of the filmmaker. If he was projecting Lawrence of Arabia, he was representing David Lean. And so there's a certain degree of nostalgia for that. But at the same time, it was a strange life, 16 hours a day in the dark. They didn't have much of a existence.

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