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Summary: An all-time classic!
Review: One of the best movies ever made. This story is well produced, the photography is superb, and the music is outstanding. This is the kind of movie that draws you into the life of the story and lets you feel the frustration and tragidy of life in Russia. An experience that no one should miss.
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Summary: A true movie
Review: DR.ZHIVAGO, which originally started out as a Nobel prize winning book, is a true movie. Not only does it have the extremely famous Rod Steiger and others, but it also focuses on the problems of Russia and what some people had to go through during it. DR.ZHIVAGO is also a movie with an excellent plot, storyline, etc. It starts out in a dam (a hydroelectric plant) where a military general is telling a young woman about her father. The military general was Dr. Zhivago's brother and is searching for his niece. To see what happens next, after the man starts telling a story that begins a bit before the turn of the century (1900), you'll have to watch the movie to find out.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: David Lean's epic film based on the novel, couldn't be more gloriously made. In fact it's so masterfully done I would rate it much higher than the book. Taking viewers throught the long and troubled life of Yuri Zhivago, a young and lively doctor/poet who faces many struggles throughout the Russian Revolution that brings chaos around him where ever he goes. Superb acting, and epic scenery and music give Doctor Zhivago the true masterpiece rating. Hands down one of my three favorite movies of all time, flawless in every aspect.
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Summary: WONDERFUL, SCENARY IS BEAUTIFUL, AAA+++
Review: A WONDERFUL ROMANTIC CLASSIC TO MAKE YOU FEEL WARM AND COZY INSIDE! MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE IS FANASTIC! A HEART WARMING MUSICALLY OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY ALL ACTORS AND ACTRESSES. I RATE THIS A AAAAA+++++
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Summary: liked so much
Review: love
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Summary: Is this it?
Review: The "Gone With The Wind" of the sixties is saved by its leading lady the way the 1939 epic was saved by Vivien Leigh. Thank God for Julie Christie, who justifies this movie's sweep and mush. She looks incredible and gives Lara some personality. Apart from Geraldine Chaplin and Rod Steiger, everyone else has a hard time having a personality or playing one with more than a single dimension.The movie draws you in and like a glorified soap-opera with great scenery and sets, is very watchable. The 'message' and 'trying to be subtle' political undercurrents in the film are offensive and often want to make you smash the TV screen. Its Lean at his least subtle, trying to make poetry out of trash. It is very watchable, though, and can make great Sunday afternoon entertainment.
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Summary: Zhivago more campy than Lawrence
Review: Doctor Zhivago is a marvel of technical skill, art and set decoration, and cinematography. The love triangle between Yuri (the famed poet-doctor), Lara (the poet's blonde muse) and Tonya (his devoted wife) can be overwrought and melodramatic though. The "Moment of Triumph" for Yuri as a poet comes when he finally finds his inspiration to write his greatest collection: Lara, A Cycle of Poems. The scene plays out in the "Ice House" as Lara sits down at Yuri's writing desk to read his poems. Composer Maurice Jarre's famous theme music conjures up and Lara's lips tremble as she mouths Yuri's magic words (which we never hear) and, which, are apparently, about her. Yuri stands behind her and announces: Lara. It's you. To which she replies: No, Yuri. It's you. The music and the acting all swell up into a rather melodramatic and somewhat silly scene. It's peculiar how Yuri overcomes his writer's block after having met and lived with Lara for some time. Apparently, poetic genius and inspiration come after (and not in the agonizing period before) having done the horizontal monkey dance with one's dreamboat. The best moments are the quiet moments when nobody talks. For example, when Yuri watches his wife iron clothes or do gardening from afar. Rod Steiger as Victor Komarovsky and Tom Courtenay as Pascha/Strelnikov out-act themselves in several scenes: "You think you're immaculate!" The film is told from Yuri's perspective as an observant and misty-eyed poet but the most steadying force of the movie is Alec Guiness who plays Yuri's half brother Yevgraf. But even Yevgraf seems out of kilter as his character must both be a kind-hearted, sympathetic uncle and also a ruthless, high-ranking Bolshevik with little patience for the "personal life" which the Party abhors. The movie takes much effort in proclaiming Yuri's marvelous skills as a poet but not one line of the poet's lingo is ever read. Even if the filmmakers lacked the courage to attempt to write a grand poem for fear of producing a dud, they might have tried alluding to Yuri's skillful wordsmithing. But they don't and apparently, Julie Christie's screen presence and Yuri's great affection for her are all the filmmakers need to convince us that Doctor Zhivago is a Renaissance Doc. Even a simple, "Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Doctor-poets do it better than anyone because A) We know female anatomy and B) We can talk dirty without really talking dirty" might have eased our hunger for good poetry. Doctor Zhivago is a good movie to watch just for the grand cinemascapes of Russia and the music of Maurice Jarre. See David Lean's A Passage to India or Lawrence of Arabia for relatively less pretentious acting and even better photography.
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Summary: Epic romance by the king of epic films
Review: David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" had a difficult task when it was released, following two of the greatest films ever made in "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia." That is stands up so well to those two titans is impressive indeed. "Doctor Zhivago," based on the novel of the same name, is a tale of love, loss and life during the Russian Revolution. Grand in scope (do we expect anything but from David Lean?) yet personal in scale, the film is less a point A to point B story as it is snippets of a man's life, the trials he faces and the women he loves. At three hours and twenty minutes, this is a long film. We linger in seemingly small moments of life. The first hour is spent simply setting up the cast of characters whose lives will become so intertwined later, or whose unexpected appearance will startle us late in the film. Yet rarely does the film feel slow. The pace, while deliberate, works. The sweep of the landscape and scope of the story is epic in proportions. We see stunning vistas and gorgeous landscapes; sprawling masses of people; a beautifully rendered Moscow; and locations that are a joy to see. Others have mentioned that "Doctor Zhivago" comes from the same realm of storytelling as "Gone With The Wind." That is an accurate assessment. Lean pulls out a series of great directing tricks, with stylish cinematography and cuts on par with "Lawrence of Arabia's" famous match-to-desert cut, giving this film a number of memorable filmmaking moments. Movie fans should be thankful that once again, one of Lean's classic films have been given a worthy DVD release. The quality on this special edition DVD release is wonderful. An impeccable image with vibrant colors and fantastic clarity, as well as rich sound, this will look great on any home theater. The only disappointment is that the film is on a two-sided "flipper" disc. If they don't bother you, great; they bother me, and so I mention it. The second disc of extras is jam-packed with great material, in depth looks at the film, interviews and plenty of shorter featurettes. A worthy collection of behind the scenes material by any measure. Epic storytelling fully remastered in a great package, all by the incomparable David Lean? No question, this is a must buy for fans of epic romance.
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Summary: Better than the book on some levels, but not all
Review: I only saw this recently, having always wanted to read the book before seeing the movie so I would know the complete story first and know what was missing from the movie. This movie is gorgeous, particularly the snow-encrusted house where Yuriy, Lara, and Lara's daughter Katya stay after Yuriy and Lara finally get together properly. And though I love Pasternak, reading his novel made it obvious he was first and foremost a talented poet, not a writer of prose. I didn't find it boring like so many others have, but it still had its slow and boring moments, and way too much background information on truly minor characters. The movie got rid of all of that; however, it also cut out things that were important in the novel, things which might have made the movie even more enjoyable if included. At the beginning, we see young Yuriy at his mother's funeral, and then instantly we're seeing him, Tonya, Lara, and Pasha as young adults (I'd assume early twenties). Their childhoods in the novel lay the foundation for their character development, like understanding that Yuriy and his friends come from wealth and privilege, and Lara and her friends are poor and more susceptible to the new revolutionary ideas. And where is Yuriy's friend Misha Gordon, who in boyhood lived with him, or their other friends Nika Dudorov and Yusupka Galiullin, or Lara's little brother Rodyon, or any of Lara's other friends? Also missing from the section on their early years is how Lara goes to work as a nanny for the Kologrivov family to escape from Komarovskiy. And where is the birth of Yuriy and Tonya's son? In the movie, the love story is more believable and credible than in the book, but not significantly more so. Minus all of the background information on their characters or any sort of detailed exploration of the various events that keep throwing the two of them together, each time for longer intervals and with deepening feelings, there's still no plausible basis for why they should get together. At least in the movie Yuriy spends more time in bed with Lara than writing poetry after she's fallen asleep. Like the book, the movie too should have ended with Yuriy's final meeting with Strelnikov after Lara and Katya have gone away with Komarovskiy, but surprisingly that important event isn't even in the movie. Granted at least the movie cuts out the for the most part superfluous Epilogue and Conclusion in the book (who wants to know that Yuriy shacks up with his childhood friend Marina when he gets back home and has two daughters with her?), but the end that does come about is at least significantly better and more conclusive than the dead-end offered in the novel. Though why doesn't Tanya tell Yevgraf about the insane woman she was living with in Siberia like in the novel? And we still don't find out what happens to Lara's daughter Katya. This was better than the book in some ways, but at the expense of cutting out many important events and characters.
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Summary: Doctor Zhivago Was An Adulterous Slime!!
Review: Folks, get the romantic stars out of your eyes. Doctor Zhivago was cheating on his pregnant wife with (...) Lara, who started out in the world by having an affair with a MARRIED MAN! She seems to like the married ones. Commitment phobic? Yes, it had a soaring score and gorgeous landscapes, but the morals of these characters made me sick. For Zhivago to leave his pregnant wife with an old man in the middle of nowhere in a Russian winter was reprehensible. I found it poetic justice when Zhivago's raging hormones led him back to the town where Lara was and he was caught by the army and inducted as military surgeon. He deserved the misery he put upon himself! That's the plot in a nutshell!
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