The opening bars to the credits at 4:34 haunt me to this day (I was employed by MGM at the time of this film's release) one of the most incredible openings to any film score ever.
Agreed the melancholy sadness of Dr Zhivago, Lara and the lost hope s of the first Russian Revolution and the betrayal of it by the Bolsheviks and then the Stalinist repression...
What was your role at MGM ? Was your work connected to the film, in any way ? Those opening bars you mention, along with the segue to the visual blew me away at the Westfield, NJ theater in 1966. I didn't know you could do that in movies....had never seen anything to that effect.
There are what I call "moments" in a film. The parts that really touch your very being and soul. This music from Dr. Zhivago gives you several of these "moments". Music has a language all its own. Dr. Zhivago is 200 minutes of several memorable "moments".
Listened to this soundtrack on vinyl a lot growing up. This restored opening to the film makes me want to rent the movie and watch the whole thing again. This movie doesn't seem to get as much recognition as it should. I always loved Julie Christie in this film as she was beautiful as ever, and a great actress. Very inspiring opening. TY for sharing this.
I’ll never forget seeing this movie for the first time in late 2010. I went to bed that night and had a strange dream. I dreamed of being old with my wife at the time, we were both in our late 20’s so I’m only 35 now, but I dreamed that I saw myself deteriorating from Alzheimer’s and the misery she was in because I could barely remember who she was. I woke up the next day, told her about it and made her swear to me that if that came to pass, she would put me in a home and leave so she wouldn’t have to watch me deteriorate completely. This piece of music is what I associate with that dream.
Amen to that. Get the DVD and watch with the commentary.....Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger (RIP too), and Lean's widow provide fascinating insight throughout the film.
Over a half century later this film has lost none of its original cinematic glory not ceremonial grandeur. Classy, erudite but accessible, drop dead romantic, visually stunning and brilliantly acted, it was an event. It's hard not to somehow wish one COULD go back to late 1965 or early 1966 having only a suspicion of what the film would be like and to be treated to an overture, the vaguely Gustav Klimt partly Saul Bass opening credits - end the best cut to intermission ("Yes...that's Strelnikov...') and re-entry from intermission (the black screen which turns out to be a tunnel) of any film I can think of. An event...that's what those 'road' show' screenings were...and we shall never experience the like of them again.
If anything, the passage of time ADDS to the magnificence of this film.... as contemporary films generally become ever more trivial in comparison. This is a definition of a "piece of art" --- it endures the passage of time. Dr. Zhivago is a true piece of art. ... Think about it the next time you watch this film: virtually EVERY camera shot is filmed as though it were a portrait.
One of my most favorite opening credits, with no gimmicks and of course no animation or CGI. Just changing backgrounds of paintings of forests with tall trees, not to mention the beautiful music. All that provide, in my opinion, the right setting and mood for the type of grand historic epic that Lean was famous for. I just have to watch this film at least once every two to three years.
The opening credits from 4.34 will be played at my father's cremation service tomorrow. When I was approx. 5 years old, he used to play this b-side of the single. He knew it would always make me cry, and he held me all through the song and danced a bit with me in his arms. That's my strongest memory of those early days. Rust zacht, papa.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU....The opening credits starting at 4:34 are so stirring to the soul...I have been playing it every chance I get...I asked my kids...do you feel anything when you hear this theme? They didn't feel it like I do...But YOU guys have validated my musical feelings Lol! The beginning of the opening credits and the ending with the flute...There are no words to describe how "enchanting" this music is to me...like it is awakening something from long ago. Thanks ;^)
Yes, me again. Just wanted to comment on the opening scene of the film. A great deal is made of the 'match' cut from the flame to the desert sunrise in 'Lawrence of Arabia', and rightfully so, but less mentioned is the stunning 'flashback' cut in this film, when Rita Tushingham 'breaks the fourth wall' and stares us down in medium close-up... then CUT to the extreme long shot of the funeral procession with the Orthodox cross in the foreground - THERE! - Lean has us - and has us again a few moments later when he cuts to the interior of the coffin - amazing - and WILL have us over and over: the first 'meeting' on the tram, the multiple mirrors in the private dining suite, Zhivago seeing Lara's hand in chiaroscuro as the train rolls over, the giant blue bottle of iodine, the candle flame in Pasha's window slowly burning away the frost as Lara confesses and the Christmas bells chime - and that's only in the first forty five minutes!
Interesting that shot from inside the coffin, that a filmmaker would think of shooting that. Sounds creepy even as I write this. I believe the idea is to show us an image of Yuri's imagination, picturing his mother, in the box, in the dark, in the earth. A thought that a child might have and never forget.
I just noticed that the actor / actress credits are in alphabetical order. No matter the level of performance, no one was given precedence (although major players / minor players were listed thusly..but they, too, were in alphab. order. Nice touch.
Every David Lean film is a saga. Vast visual vistas, sweeping tides of history, individuals in their private anguish, and music that ebbs and flows like pounding surf. I know I sound flowery. Blame it on the music.
@@sweetwilliamful The other night I treated myself to A Passage to India. The scene near the end with the Himalayas...it never ceases to impart a thrill. The film is the perfect curarive to the whole current Culture Wars. It enjoins all factions to be truly diverse. Be willing to look the individual in the eye and overlook...or at least strive to find the common ground...between the 2 POV's. My oldest lives near Seattle and has imbibed of all that culture has to offer. I'm a staid conservative wedded to all the conventionalities of the free market, theism, and hetero normality. Yet I hope that there is a place where our divergent views bridge.
Next time you see the movie, pay attention to the writing on signs. There is a location that shows up twice in the film, once before the revolution and then later. The revision of the alphabet shows up the second time.
I agree with rhondadoodle. I am so glad I can listen to Maurice Jarre's exquisite music whenever I want on TH-cam. You either "feel" the music or you don't.
Supposedly Maurice Jarre could not come up with a theme for this movie, so David Lean told him to go have a vacation with his girlfriend, and when Jarre came back, he gave us this.
Doctor Zhivago, 1965, LA la la la la la. I watched this movie many times when younger. I have planted European white birches in the United States. 1965 is also the year of The Sound Of Music. It is also the year the movie Battle of the Bulge came out. I have studied Russia and the Russian revolution. I have owned many Russian things, read many books, listened to Russian composers. Somewhere my love... I am LA, la la la, the city of angels, Queen Katikina is here, Queen Ischa Ina and Isa Ina too, my czarina's. I am related to the Czars. I am related to Peter the great, I am both Peter and the Wolf. LLXIIX77
And an interesting note: an ALMOST flawless film. If you watch carefully during the Moscow scenes when Komorovsky takes Lara to her first dinner, notice the voices singing 'L'internationale' in the street do not synch with the lips of the crowd singing them. Why? Most of the film was shot in Spain and there were members of Franco's secret police in the crowd of looking around to see who WAS singing /who knew the lyrics to the Communist anthem. Most of the extras were probably singing something else; the words were later dubbed in.
But in the DVD commentary, Steiger and Lean's widow say that many people commented who lived in Spain at the time and heard the singing, those folks thought there was an uptick of revolutionary fervor when they heard The Internationale being sung....so it was being sung, at least by some. So maybe another version was dubbed in later.
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Dr. Zhivago is one of the few examples of where I love both the book and the movie. This film has one of the greatest soundtracks ever.
The opening bars to the credits at 4:34 haunt me to this day (I was employed by MGM at the time of this film's release) one of the most incredible openings to any film score ever.
Agreed the melancholy sadness of Dr Zhivago, Lara and the lost hope s of the first Russian Revolution and the betrayal of it by the Bolsheviks and then the Stalinist repression...
What was your role at MGM ? Was your work connected to the film, in any way ? Those opening bars you mention, along with the segue to the visual blew me away at the Westfield, NJ theater in 1966. I didn't know you could do that in movies....had never seen anything to that effect.
@@timmellin2815 I was employed in the administration dept. of MGM. Australia. Whenever I got the chance I would go and watch the opening credits :-)
That point always brings tears to my eyes
@@richardalfaro3890 And now Putin!
I feel my heart swept through the arc of the entire film in these 7 minutes.
Maurice Jarre ..what a genius..this and Lawrence of Arabia
There are what I call "moments" in a film. The parts that really touch your very being and soul. This music from Dr. Zhivago gives you several of these "moments". Music has a language all its own. Dr. Zhivago is 200 minutes of several memorable "moments".
This is the way good films should be watched - with an overture, intermission and entr'acte.
Bravo!
Thats why i collect all the Masterpieces 😍
Watch The Wind And The Lion... its opening is fantastic as well
Intermission and entr'acte are the same thing.
99% of people under 30 are glued to their asinine phones 24/7. They have the attention span of about 1 second. It will never happen.
Listened to this soundtrack on vinyl a lot growing up. This restored opening to the film makes me want to rent the movie and watch the whole thing again. This movie doesn't seem to get as much recognition as it should. I always loved Julie Christie in this film as she was beautiful as ever, and a great actress. Very inspiring opening. TY for sharing this.
I’ll never forget seeing this movie for the first time in late 2010. I went to bed that night and had a strange dream. I dreamed of being old with my wife at the time, we were both in our late 20’s so I’m only 35 now, but I dreamed that I saw myself deteriorating from Alzheimer’s and the misery she was in because I could barely remember who she was. I woke up the next day, told her about it and made her swear to me that if that came to pass, she would put me in a home and leave so she wouldn’t have to watch me deteriorate completely. This piece of music is what I associate with that dream.
This film has moved more people than anyone can imagine.
RIP Omar Sharif.
😔 😢
He's in Heaven smiling at us. While we thank him, for making great movies. :)
Amen to that. Get the DVD and watch with the commentary.....Omar Sharif, Rod Steiger (RIP too), and Lean's widow provide fascinating insight throughout the film.
The music in the opening credits for this movie are just incredible!!
Maurice Jarre an extraordinary French composer - just like Francis Lai for Love Story and Michel Legrand for Yentl - The French are unbeatable
This is FANTASTIC above and far beyond description in words!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ben Hur
Over a half century later this film has lost none of its original cinematic glory not ceremonial grandeur. Classy, erudite but accessible, drop dead romantic, visually stunning and brilliantly acted, it was an event. It's hard not to somehow wish one COULD go back to late 1965 or early 1966 having only a suspicion of what the film would be like and to be treated to an overture, the vaguely Gustav Klimt partly Saul Bass opening credits - end the best cut to intermission ("Yes...that's Strelnikov...') and re-entry from intermission (the black screen which turns out to be a tunnel) of any film I can think of. An event...that's what those 'road' show' screenings were...and we shall never experience the like of them again.
If anything, the passage of time ADDS to the magnificence of this film.... as contemporary films generally become ever more trivial in comparison.
This is a definition of a "piece of art" --- it endures the passage of time. Dr. Zhivago is a true piece of art. ... Think about it the next time you watch this film: virtually EVERY camera shot is filmed as though it were a portrait.
The days of great performances great director and actors who knew how to speak topped off with the great composer Mauruce Jarre
One of my most favorite opening credits, with no gimmicks and of course no animation or CGI. Just changing backgrounds of paintings of forests with tall trees, not to mention the beautiful music. All that provide, in my opinion, the right setting and mood for the type of grand historic epic that Lean was famous for. I just have to watch this film at least once every two to three years.
The opening credits from 4.34 will be played at my father's cremation service tomorrow. When I was approx. 5 years old, he used to play this b-side of the single. He knew it would always make me cry, and he held me all through the song and danced a bit with me in his arms. That's my strongest memory of those early days. Rust zacht, papa.
I'm so sorry. He's in Heaven now.
I hope he’s having a wonderful journey.
This is such a tragic story. But most Russian Novels are tragic. Awesome music though. Maurice Jarre a true artist
Oh how beautiful to listen this piece. It reminds me of my very special friend back then. Those old good memories never dies. So soothing.
Love this movie! Have it on DVD and videocassette. The music to this movie is beautiful and nostalgic.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU....The opening credits starting at 4:34 are so stirring to the soul...I have been playing it every chance I get...I asked my kids...do you feel anything when you hear this theme? They didn't feel it like I do...But YOU guys have validated my musical feelings Lol! The beginning of the opening credits and the ending with the flute...There are no words to describe how "enchanting" this music is to me...like it is awakening something from long ago. Thanks ;^)
It still gives me the goosebumps, even after all these years - the best film music I've ever known, to accompany the best and saddest film ever made.
Mitica, mi vengono i brividi ogni volta che la ascolto e un esplosione di sensazioni.
Yes, me again. Just wanted to comment on the opening scene of the film. A great deal is made of the 'match' cut from the flame to the desert sunrise in 'Lawrence of Arabia', and rightfully so, but less mentioned is the stunning 'flashback' cut in this film, when Rita Tushingham 'breaks the fourth wall' and stares us down in medium close-up... then CUT to the extreme long shot of the funeral procession with the Orthodox cross in the foreground - THERE! - Lean has us - and has us again a few moments later when he cuts to the interior of the coffin - amazing - and WILL have us over and over: the first 'meeting' on the tram, the multiple mirrors in the private dining suite, Zhivago seeing Lara's hand in chiaroscuro as the train rolls over, the giant blue bottle of iodine, the candle flame in Pasha's window slowly burning away the frost as Lara confesses and the Christmas bells chime - and that's only in the first forty five minutes!
Interesting that shot from inside the coffin, that a filmmaker would think of shooting that. Sounds creepy even as I write this. I believe the idea is to show us an image of Yuri's imagination, picturing his mother, in the box, in the dark, in the earth. A thought that a child might have and never forget.
I just noticed that the actor / actress credits are in alphabetical order. No matter the level of performance, no one was given precedence (although major players / minor players were listed thusly..but they, too, were in alphab. order. Nice touch.
That's why I have IMDB open at same time so I can find things about the movie during commercials on Tubi
Fun fact: From 0:20 to 0:55 is the anthem of the Russian Empire!
Dee Nagara
Correct!
“God Save the Tsar” by Prince Alexei Feodorovich Lvov!
@@EuropeYear1917 🇷🇺 they killed the tsar and his family. And his cousin King George didn't do nothing about it
@@kevins4426 What could he do?
@@WhiteCamry he could have invited them over so they didn't get murdered. Oh well it's 😔
WhiteCamry He could’ve had them come to England. And use England as a transit point to go to Canada or Australia. Or somewhere else. But he didn’t.
Epically beautiful music. I love the movie, but I've watched it so many times that I've worn it out. But the music? That I can't wear out.
From 4.34, memories of my late father.
I am so sorry, he's in Heaven. They're never really gone. :)
Thanks for the upload brings back memories when my parents bought this album.
from PERSIA with Passion
Every David Lean film is a saga. Vast visual vistas, sweeping tides of history, individuals in their private anguish, and music that ebbs and flows like pounding surf.
I know I sound flowery. Blame it on the music.
You nailed it. Lovely. Not flowery at all.
@@sweetwilliamful
The other night I treated myself to A Passage to India. The scene near the end with the Himalayas...it never ceases to impart a thrill.
The film is the perfect curarive to the whole current Culture Wars. It enjoins all factions to be truly diverse. Be willing to look the individual in the eye and overlook...or at least strive to find the common ground...between the 2 POV's.
My oldest lives near Seattle and has imbibed of all that culture has to offer. I'm a staid conservative wedded to all the conventionalities of the free market, theism, and hetero normality. Yet I hope that there is a place where our divergent views bridge.
The three movie epics of the 20th century: GONE WITH THE WIND, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and TITANIC.
Gone With The Wind is a fantastic movie but problematic it still deserves to be up there and add Casablanca
And Ben-Hur..
革命の歴史に翻弄される人々を見下ろす白銀壮大なウラル山脈。白樺林とひまわり畑、ジバゴとラーラ、戦時下のすれ違いと愛。名画に名曲が素晴らしい！
Gracias!!! Thanks!!!!! 😓❤❤❤❤❤😉😉😉 Estaba buscando un video así para descargarlo
Najbolja filmska muzička tema u istoriji kinematografije, bez dileme. Nebojša Jovanović
Maurice jarre created this music with his own life
Next time you see the movie, pay attention to the writing on signs. There is a location that shows up twice in the film, once before the revolution and then later. The revision of the alphabet shows up the second time.
1:36-2:20 is the most imperial sounding thing I've ever heard. When I hear that I feel like I'm in a final fantasy setting lol.
Varykino theme.
I agree with rhondadoodle. I am so glad I can listen to Maurice Jarre's exquisite music whenever I want on TH-cam. You either "feel" the music or you don't.
the magic starts at 4:30
I agree. But 6:15 is more explosive !
1:00-1:34 sounds like an alternate version if farewell of slavankia
grandiosa Overture y película
Supposedly Maurice Jarre could not come up with a theme for this movie, so David Lean told him to go have a vacation with his girlfriend, and when Jarre came back, he gave us this.
Yes. Lara's Theme = actress Laura Devon
Maurice Jarre captured the Russian soul in this. I know because I am Russian.
Your comments are so touching Maxiclaudi...what an exquisite memory of your father. Hugs
the original the fox & the hound eye of the needle release JULY 1981 in theaters around the country
Doctor Zhivago, 1965, LA la la la la la.
I watched this movie many times when younger. I have planted European white birches in the United States.
1965 is also the year of The Sound Of Music. It is also the year the movie Battle of the Bulge came out. I have studied Russia and the Russian revolution. I have owned many Russian things, read many books, listened to Russian composers. Somewhere my love... I am LA, la la la, the city of angels,
Queen Katikina is here, Queen Ischa Ina and Isa Ina too, my czarina's. I am related to the Czars. I am related to Peter the great, I am both Peter and the Wolf. LLXIIX77
A réal Masterpiece !
The story is a portrayal of fate.
Thank you ever so much for your sympathy.
Ben Hur and king of kings and this too.
This came on last night
Pasha Antipov Streynikov, Hero!
As covered bridges in Iowa - an arrived film of romance
Please accept my sincere condolences.
これこそがドクトル・ジバゴの正統なるメイン・テーマ💚
And an interesting note: an ALMOST flawless film. If you watch carefully during the Moscow scenes when Komorovsky takes Lara to her first dinner, notice the voices singing 'L'internationale' in the street do not synch with the lips of the crowd singing them. Why? Most of the film was shot in Spain and there were members of Franco's secret police in the crowd of looking around to see who WAS singing /who knew the lyrics to the Communist anthem. Most of the extras were probably singing something else; the words were later dubbed in.
But in the DVD commentary, Steiger and Lean's widow say that many people commented who lived in Spain at the time and heard the singing, those folks thought there was an uptick of revolutionary fervor when they heard The Internationale being sung....so it was being sung, at least by some. So maybe another version was dubbed in later.
I love film, foreign, domestic, 20s till now, but get to the damn film already!
Best film isaw..
4:34
Never forget 3052
4:34 Lara's theme
And Yuri's theme. Lara's is just from 5:30 to 6:15, actually.
Closed doors by any romances
Grandiosa película.-
Tears to russian eyes
Stalin, Lenin - bolshevik vs menshevik - vikings against
Eachother for a russia in a nowhereland
First saw film with a family of Russian descent.
What is the theme at 1:35?
Russia is hard to reighn or to rule - a beloved land of many colours
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tuesday june 27 2023 7:30pm
wednesday june 28 2023 7:30pm
thursday june 29 2023 7:30pm
friday june 30 2023 7:30pm
saturday july 1 2023 2:00pm
saturday july 1 2023 7:30pm
sunday july 2 2023 1:00pm
sunday july 2 2023 6:30pm
the summer kids june july august september interstate fair
les miserables broadway opening 4:35
crissy lane the summer love song tour july 14 the bing theater
best of broadway presents ANASTASIA wed dec 29 7:30PM ticketswest
바람과 함께 사라지다 오프닝
1:34
teenage stories ...love .
..in vain ...insane....a chicked
my father never saw - he got captured militopol to build streets loved russia
Ja liubla de
Russia is still fighting on😮.... ,🎉😢
If you want to know the true story of Russian history, watch Anastasia from 1997.
The story is fake when she's a new person i guess not the princess
Soviets are a socialist ...a marching band .for an international movement
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