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...DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (MGM). A 110-piece symphony orchestra, reinforced with 24 balalaika players and a section of Japanese instruments including a samisen, a koto and a 6-ft. gong (valued at $3,000), plus organ, novachord, electric sonovox, harpsichord, electric piano, tack piano and zither, plays Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score. The variety of instruments would be more interesting if the listener could pick them out, but they all seem to play at once. One haunting tune, Lara's Theme, emerges-but just barely...
...Sound of Music 2) Doctor Zhivago 3) Thunderball 4) Our Man Flint 5)Battle of the Bulge 6)The Silencers 7)Inside Daisy Clover 8)The Oscar 9) A Patch of Blue 10) The Ugly Dachsund 11) The Chase 12) The Agony and the Ecstasy
...DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie lead an exceptional cast through romance and revolution in Director David Lean's eye-filling facsimile of Pasternak's Russia...
...senses that Pasternak had something else in mind and screen writer Robert Bolt also. Presumably we are supposed to identify with Zhivago, whose individualism is being cramped by the system. But it's not easy to identify with a character who does nothing but write poems we never see. In fact, the only evidence for Zhivago's poems is that he looks at the moon a lot and seldom speaks; and while Sharif can look at the moon with the best of them, it's not enough to make a character...
Julie Christie would be the picture's saving grace if she had more to do or say in it. Geraldine Chaplin might as well start her career all over again; certainly no one should hold this first role against her. Actually, Zhivago's only well-thought-out role falls to Rod Steiger, who makes the most of it and--by way of reward--gets to take Julie Christie off into Siberia...