“Dennis Potter: The Final Interview” (NVG, $20) is a sad, enthralling, mesmerizing must-see. He also was dying of cancer and had only weeks to live. Potter was frank, brilliant, controversial. The restored “Doctor Zhivago” is available in regular and letterbox formats and includes a documentary on the film.ĭocumentaries: On April 15, 1994, British writer Dennis Potter (“Pennies From Heaven,” “The Singing Detective”) was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg (“The South Bank Show”) for British television. I think everybody needs that now and then.” Even the people who love violent, now and then they feel like seeing a good old romantic film where they can have a little cry and a little dream. If you think about it, it’s exactly the same formula as ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s a great love story set against the background of civil war and revolution. Sharif believes “Doctor Zhivago” has struck a chord with audiences over three decades because it’s “got all the classic ingredients of the classic film. I wouldn’t accept a film today if they said you have to go out for 10 to 12 months in uncomfortable conditions.” When you are young you can do these things. I tell you what, I wouldn’t do this again. “I was out there about four months before for preparation,” Sharif recalls. Sharif spent 10 1/2 months shooting “Zhivago” in Spain and Finland. As a matter of fact, all the MGM people, even Carlo Ponti, the producer, thought he was mad. That’s why he got me to do ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ because it wasn’t obvious at the time that the actor who was sitting on the camel in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ with a black mustache would come and play a Russian poet. “I made films in Egypt, but he’s the one who discovered me for the Western world. “He considered me in a sort of way as his son because he always thought he discovered me,” Sharif explains. Sharif received a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his performance as the friend of T.E. Sharif says he had a great working relationship with director Lean, who first cast the Egyptian actor in his 1962 Oscar-winner “Lawrence of Arabia” in the role of Sherif Ali Ibn El Kharish. They say, ‘My God, that’s the guy from the ‘60s.’ When you think that 30 years have passed so quickly, you think, ‘Well, I hope the next 10 years won’t pass that quickly.’ ” Audiences, he says, “expect you to be even older than you really are.
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