The Dryden will screen Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, U.S./Italy/U.K. 1965, 197 min., 35mm) as part of the Oscar Week series and theWinter Romance series.

An epic romance of doomed love, Doctor Zhivago is set amidst the tumultuous years encompassing World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) is a married physician and poet who falls madly in love with Lara (Julie Christie), a nurse who is also married. The tangled epic of love and war "did nothing less than re-create Moscow and its countryside," according to Roger Ebert. "Doctor Zhivago," Ebert continues, "believes that history should have a lot of room for personal feelings . . . the individual over the state, the heart over the mind." Banned in the Soviet Union for decades, Doctor Zhivago won five of the ten Academy Awards for which it was nominated and has continued to garner acclaim ever since.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2019-Feb-18]