(1946)
the British Film Institute
Based on the Charles
Dickens novel, this film is
considered one of the finest
literary adaptations ever
put to film. Beginning in
1830, the film follows little
orphan Pip from his days as
a blacksmith's apprentice
to his days of good fortune
as a young gentleman in
the care of his mysterious
benefactor. The film is full of
unforgettably beautiful and
haunting images.
of an apolitical Russian doctor and poet (Zhivago, played by
Omar Sharif) who falls in love with the wife of a political
activist (Lara, played by Julie Christie), though he is also
married himself. Coming in second to her husband's
activism, Lara falls in love with Zhivago, whose poetry
she inspires. But their passionate affair is abruptly
interrupted by the Revolution. Nominated for ten
Academy Awards, it remains one of the finest films of
the 1960s and an all-time classic.