Doctor Zhivago 1965
- Director: David Lean
- Other films seen by this director: The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Great Expectations, Brief Encounter
- Based on book by Boris Pasternak
- Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtney, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Omar Sharif – Hidalgo, Funny Girl, The Yellow Rolls Royce
- Julie Christie – Glorious 39, Finding Neverland, Harry Potter, Hamlet, Heaven Can Wait, Nashville, McCabe and Mrs Miller, The Go-Between, Petulia, Far from the Madding Crowd, Fahrenheit 451, Darling
- Geraldine Chaplin – The Impossible, The Hollow Crown, Chaplin, Nashville
- Rod Steiger – Mars Attacks, The Ballad of the Sad Café, The January Man, Happy Birthday Wanda June, In the Heat of the Night, Oklahoma, On the Waterfront
- Alec Guinness – Kafka, A Handful of Dust, Star Wars etc, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge over the River Kwai, Great Expectations
- Tom Courtney – Unforgotten, Flood, Last Orders, Quartet, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, The Dresser, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner
- Ralph Richardson – O Lucky Man!, Oh What a Lovely War!, Exodus, Richard III
- Rita Tushingham – Being Julia, The Girl with the Green Eyes, A Taste of Honey
- Why? A must
- Seen: Twice before. Now 19 December 2020
This is the film that turned me into a
pacifist. I saw it when it came out and I left the cinema shaken and changed
forever.
A lot has happened since then, in my
life, in Russia (mostly bad, not the least in recent decades) and in the world.
The need for revolution is greater than
ever. If we’re determined, and lucky, it could – and must be – non-violent.
That’s what this film taught me.
It’s not perfect. Their hair is too
clean, Lara doesn’t really have much character, and Tonya is too sweet.
Nevertheless, for what the film has meant to me
5 * of 5
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