Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Doctor Zhivago
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Sunday Dec 7, 2008 (3pm)
Thursday Dec 11, 2008 (6:30pm)
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$9
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Period-piece machine David Lean directed Doctor Zhivago, the 1965 classic adaptation of Boris Pasternak's sprawling Russian saga. The epic portrays the fierce love between a sensitive poet/surgeon, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and a dressmaker's daughter, Lara (Julie Christie), whose affair is curtailed by the (decidedly picturesque) Russian revolution. As hard-to-pronounce characters careen across the screen and subplots are interwoven, the episodic narrative develops as an elegant train ride through a rough, romantic personal and national history. Tonight, the 3+ hour film screens as part of the Siskel's The Cinema of David Lean series. There will be a ten-minute intermission.
