Who else loves the movie Doctor Zhivago

[Longgrain]

Sorry chimpsaresmarter ;)

One of my all time favorite flicks, that I always seem to go back to...

Anyone else want to chime in.

[burythehatchet]

1. me

the music itself is haunting

[Longgrain]

5. Thanks, me myself i love it...

as for the music...

"Tonya! Can you play the Balalanka?"

Best ending to any movie ever. IMHO

[SOteric]

2. I like the book.

[gollygee]

3. Oh I love that one

One of my all-time favorites!

[jonnyblitz]

4. me! I also read the book twice when I was a teenager

Omar Shariff looks just like my late grandfather in that movie.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Omar Sharif was gorgeous when he was young

and I love that movie too!

[AlCzervik]

15. My brother-in-law is a dead ringer for Omar

[elperromagico]

6. I admire every David Lean film I've seen,

even Ryan's Daughter, which is by no means a masterpiece. The man had a great eye.

[Nicole]

7. Me!

It's a classic.

[Longgrain]

8. Has anybody else seen the new PBS version.

It ran about a year ago. It was supposed to be truer to Pasternak's book, but I noticed it borrowed heavily from David Leans version.

Just curious...ya know?

[chookie]

11. I did; didn't like it

I was curious to see how it differed from Lean's masterpiece -- it did, in quality. It was not clear how much "more" the PBS version had in it -- personally, I thought it was a wasted effort. Made Lean's achievement all the more stunning by contrast.

[Longgrain]

14. I tend to agree...

i did like it...It just didn't capture the poetry or feeling of the the book, or the Lean movie, which was much better.

[Harry S Truman]

9. Soyuz Nerushimi Respublik Svobodna......

Interesting facts: The movie was filmed mostly in Spain I believe. So the "Ice Palace" was all phony ice. Probably cake icing. Also, the scene where the woman hands the baby to the guys on the train then falls under the train...the actress actually fell under the train. It was an accident during the filming, but it was so good they kept it in the movie. She survived btw. Cool movie really.

[chookie]

12. The "ice" was wax.

They threw hot buckets of it onto everything. It worked beautifully.

[SheilaT]

13. I love it too.

Geraldine Chaplin was breathtakingly beautiful then. Such gorgeous black hair.

[LordshipLadyship]

17. her dress with the beads

I remember I just thought that was the most beautiful gown. I saw Zhivago in San Francisco, I believe, on three screens at once, amazing photography, amazing..I had a Russian coat, Russian style was popular after that film. So many memories.

[chookie]

16. I love it

Another Lean masterpiece, heartbreakingly, rapturously beautiful.

The performances, the music, the beautiful costumes, the epic scale of the story. Those two magnificent women -- imagine having to choose between Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin! And Ralph Richardson and Siobhan McKenna are so endearing. Klaus Kinski's cameo is unforgettable. Oh yes, Tom Courtney and Rod Steiger.

And scripted by the best -- Robert Bolt, the master.

[Tracer]

18. Last weekend on PBS ...

... they showed Lean's "Dr. Zhivago" as a prelude to their showing the next night of the PBS version.

I hadn't seen the Lean version in years and years so I watched it. It was really wonderful, even the second or third time around.

The next night I tuned in for the PBS version (in 2 parts). I don't think this one is doing it for me. The woman who plays Lara has no depth to her; she comes off as an irritated teenager. The guy playing Dr. Zhivago is soulful-enough, but can't hold a candle to Omar Sharif.