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Doctor Zhivago: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0027616513632
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC
Label: MGM
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: MGM
Release Date: September 26, 1995
Running Time: 197 minutes
Studio: MGM
Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 1965
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Editorial Review:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Fabulous
Doctor Zhivago is romance and history and struggle all wrapped up in one tremendous piece of art!
Rating: - Beautiful and informative
Based on Pasternak's excellent novel, this is one of the truly great movies. It is strong in all areas. The story is powerful, the actors excellent, the editing appropriate, the sound track wonderful and the cinematography breathtaking.
Even the scene in which the child Zhivago's mother is buried on a bitter Winter day is fabulous. We are actually permitted into the coffin of the beautiful young woman as her orphaned child watches ice crystals forming on his window. Unique, powerful ... Read More
Rating: - An Epic Story That Only David Lean Could Tell!
This film together with "Bridge On the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia" represent a hattrick of director David Lean's best ever work as well as among the best films ever made. Although "Lawrence of Arabia" is clearly the best of the three, "Doctor Zhivago is a close second. This film has been described quite aptly as Russia's "Gone With the Wind" as the loves and lives of the people close to Doctor Zhivago gets told amid the backdrop of World War 1 and the Russian Revolution all the way to the ... Read More
Rating: - Dr Zhivago
Great movie to begin with and this 2 disc set was especially nice. I enjoyed watching the old interviews with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie which were conducted back at the time of the original theatrical release.
Rating:  - A pretty film with an average plot about mostly unlikeable people
I am a woman of a certain age. I had never seen this film before, and sat down to view it with absolutely NO preconceptions or knowlege beyond that it was a 'really famous movie about people living at the time of the Russian Revolution."
4 hours later (allowing for some locking up of the scratched library copy I viewed) ... I slapped myself awake and went off to get a snack.
My reviews will pretty much echo most of the other 2-3 star ones.
It's a very pretty ... Read More
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