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Publisher : MGM Director : David Lean Actor : Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Manufacturer : MGM
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David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean's unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers--like Gone with the Wind before it and Titanic after. Sharif, who achieved stardom in Lean's previous film, Lawrence of Arabia, mostly looks noble, but the supporting cast is spiky: Rod Steiger as a fat-cat monster, Tom Courtenay as a self-righteous revolutionary, and Klaus Kinski and Alec Guinness in smaller roles. Geraldine Chaplin, in her adult debut, plays the doctor's compliant wife. Robert Bolt's screenplay won one of the film's five Oscars, with another going to perhaps the most immediately recognizable element of the movie: Maurice Jarre's romantic music, with its hugely popular "Lara's Theme" weaving in and out of a swooning score. --Robert Horton
Customer reviews for 'Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition'
«Never before seen»
I must say for being in the 50+ age bracket I could not believe I had not seen this movie. I spoke with my Mother when I told her I had purchased this movie for my stocking, she was beside herself reminiscing her youth and Omar Sharif. Well to my delight I found myself tearing and loving my husband more deeply than I already do. What a wonderful, romantic, set your heart on fire, time piece of a movie. It should be seen again by those that have seen it many years past and seen for the fist time by those who have not.
[Wednesday, January 07, 2009]
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«Creating Russian Memories»
Again I am trying to give my adopted Russian granddaughters some sense of their homeland history through any visual or written words. They came with no material links just memories that will fade as they get older.
[Tuesday, January 06, 2009]
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«Love for the Ages»
I've seen "Zhivago" many times and consider it easily among the 100 best English-language films of the past half-century. It was my mother's favorite, she of Ukranian/Russian roots. But I purchased the DVD as a parting gift for the unrequited love of my life, who counts herself a movie buff but nonetheless had no knowledge of this great David Lean epic. Though I'm certain she is my "Lara," she has recently chosen instead to commit herself to a Komarovsky-like character who will inevitably be unfaithful to her. Tragically, she's been subconsciously convinced by her mother's history that the Komarovskys of the world are all she deserves. When I stop feeling sorry for myself, perhaps I'll work the whole sorry tale into a screenplay of its own, and 50 years from now some heartbroken chump will write a non-review review of my great film.
[Tuesday, January 06, 2009]
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