Doctor Zhivago
1965, NR, 197 min.
Directed by David Lean, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness.

Admittedly, this overlong and over-romantic Oscar-winning epic has never melted my personal tundra, but it’s definitely quite the spectacle as directed by the modern-day king of epics, David Lean. The movie is something that should be experienced by everyone at least once in a lifetime, and I guarantee that you’ll never have a better opportunity to see this wide-screen love story than in this two-day Paramount run of the newly restored print.

This article appears in June 16 • 1995 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.