Film Persona

  David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" By 1965, David Lean had come to be known for his expansive epics, like 1957's " The Bridge on the River Kwai " or 1962's " Lawrence of Arabia ." So, his 1965 film " Doctor Zhivago " was nothing out of the ordinary. Based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Russian poet Boris Pasternak, the film details the fictional accounts of a Doctor Zhivago (also a poet) through the very real historical events involving the Russian Revolution. Despite the film depicting the tsarist rule and the eventual Bolshevik state as both being hostile and terrorizing, the Soviet Union felt the film was anti-Soviet all together. In the film, Doctor Zhivago is constantly caught in the middle between the factions, ultimately trying to keep himself and his family safe (along with his mistress). Once the Bolsheviks take power, they are portrayed as cold and villainous which clearly upset the Soviet state. The titular character of...

  Robert Wise's "The Sound of Music" Undoubtedly one of the most popular films in history, 1965's " The Sound of Music " continues to be in the forefront of conversations regarding great cinema. Its songs are iconic (and still sung), its Technicolor is remarkable, and its themes continue to be relevant. Winner of 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the film also was a commercial smash it, By 1966, it had surpassed " Gone with the Wind " at the U.S. box office to become the highest grossing film in history. The film is an adaptation of an adaption of an adaption of a real-life even. Specifically, the real Von Trapp family fled Austria in 1938 and Maria wrote about their experiences in the 1949 memoir " The Story of the Trapp Family Singers " after the death of the patriarch in 1947. That memoir was turned into a Broadway production in 1959, which was then turned in to the 1965 musical film. It centers on Maria, a young woman studying...