Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition
by David Lean
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Actor: Alec Guinness, Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Omar Sharif, Rod SteigerDirector: David Lean
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
Cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg
Editor: Norman Savage
Producer: Arvid Griffen
Writer: Boris Pasternak
Writer: Robert Bolt
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Special Edition
Running Time: 197 minutes
Release Date: 1995-09-26
Publisher: MGM
Studio: MGM
VHS Movie Reviews of Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition
Movie Review: Doctor Zhivago
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie and watch it over and over. Thank you for sending it to me so quickly.Movie Review: Dr. Zhivago ALL TIME BEST
Summary: 5 Stars
Dr. Zhivago IS one of the BEST movies of ALL TIME. A CLASSIC in drama, and the haunting "Lara's Theme" is ever popular music. Acting is superb, and movie should have won OSCAR for best film.Movie Review: Didn't enjoy it
Summary: 2 Stars
Dr Zhivago, does any film have a more "classic" reputation? I saw this last night and to my surprise, really didn't enjoy it at all.
Granted, the cinematography is amazing. The scenes of snowy night-time Russian streets are incredibly atmospheric even on a TV- it must have been enthralling on a big screen. The music score too is very good, albeit a bit repetitive.
The problem I really had with this movie is that I found the characters so fundamentally unlikeable that getting immersed into the movie impossible. From a greasy goateed mumbling Rod Steiger calling Julie Christie a slut, to the doctor assuring Dr Zhivago that he'll "put the b*tch in hospital" (nice), to the young idealist who says he loves Marxism more than Lara (who said romance is dead?) to the expressionless policeman Alec Guiness who seems to be a perambulatory window dummy. Then Dr Zhivago himself, a young man who marries his stepsister and then makes it quite clear that he fancies Lara. Marrying your stepsister? That's pretty sleazy.
Apart from that the film is so obviously a product of the 1960s, both visually and stylistically that the kitsch factor is hard to ignore.
Movie Review: Great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I really liked this movie.It had all the emotions that a normal person would have in their life.It is a must see movie.Movie Review: Dr. Zhivago review
Summary: 5 Stars
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The Movie ain't bad either !!! Real tear-jerker . Put it on and watch the wife/lover cry .
Summary of Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition
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 HortonDrama Video
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