Doctor Zhivago

There is also an eight-part Russian miniseries expected in 2005. Joe Pesci received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tommy DeVito in 1990. Doctor Zhivago is also a miniseries with Hans Matheson and Keira Knightley, first appearing on the British ITV network in November 2002 and Masterpiece Theatre in the US, in November 2003. In 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Award nominations:. The film is #94 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Years, 100 Movies and is consistently in the top 30 on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films.
Award wins:. Now he is a "nobody"; as he laments in the film's closing lines, "I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.".

Primary cast. He and his family enter the federal Witness Protection Program, disappearing into anonymity to save their lives. Since Rachmaninoff was a friend of the Pasternak family, and Plevitskaya a friend of Rachmaninoff, Plevitskaya was probably Pasternak's 'mind image' when he wrote the chapter; something which also shows how Pasternak had roots in music. Convinced he and his family are marked for death, Henry acts swiftly and decisively, spilling the beans on his former criminal cohorts to the FBI, sending them away for long prison terms. Pasternak's description of the singer Kubarikha in the chapter 'Iced Rownberries' is virtually identical to how Sofia Satina (sister-in-law/cousin of Sergei Rachmaninoff) described Gypsy singer Nadezhda Plevitskaya (1884-1940). After Henry's drug arrest, Cicero abandons him, and the rest of his mob cohorts fast follow suit. Even the love of his life, Lara (sometimes called Larissa), is taken from him. (The rest of the film also uses the same sort of scoring strategy, where the music provides not only an emotional backdrop but a sense of historical context.).

He must witness cannibalism, dismemberment, and a young man shot dead for wanting to see his family. The editing and scoring of the sequence have been acclaimed as some of Scorsese's best work, with a montage of popular songs such as The Who's "Magic Bus" and Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into the Fire" forming the soundtrack. Yuri Zhivago's idealism stands in brutal contrast to the horrors of the Russian Revolution. He must coordinate a major cocaine shipment, cook a meal for his wife, children and paraplegic younger brother, placate his drug-addled, emotionally unstable mistress, cope with his clueless, superstitious babysitter/drug courier, avoid federal authorities who, unknown to him, have had him under surveillance for several months, and satisfy his sleazy customers, all the while a nervous wreck from getting too little sleep and snorting too much cocaine. In medical school, one of his professors reminds him that bacteria may be beautiful under the microscope but does ugly things to people. In an extended, virtuoso sequence named "Sunday, May 11th, 1980," all of the different paths of Henry's complicated criminal career catastrophically collide. He is distracted by the beauty of ice crystals on a window pane. Worse, after promising to welcome DeVito into the Lucchese family as a "made man," the elder members of the family instead kill him as retaliation for Batts's death.

Zhivago is sensitive and poetic nearly to the point of mysticism. At the same time, in December 1978, Jimmy Conway and friends plan and carry out a record six million dollar heist from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at JFK airport, but Jimmy soon grows disgusted and paranoid when his associates foolishly flaunt their gains in plain sight, threatening to draw police attention, and begins having them gradually eliminated. The book was finally published in Russian in 1988, ironically in the pages of Novyi mir. Although Paul Cicero tolerated Henry's prison drug deals, he has sternly warned him not to deal drugs on the outside and to inform him of those who do, but Henry ignores Paul and gets Tommy and Jimmy (as well as his wife, and new mistress (Debi Mazar), and babysitter) involved in an elaborate smuggling operation. The following year, it appeared in an Italian translation, and this publication was partly responsible for the fact that the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. There, Henry deals drugs to keep afloat, and by the time he returns to his family he has a lucrative drug connection in Pittsburgh, one which he had established while still in prison. It was submitted for publication to the journal Novyi mir but, due to Pasternak's difficult relationship with the Soviet government, it was rejected. After beating up a debt-ridden Florida gambler whose sister works as an FBI typist, Henry and Jimmy are caught and sent to prison for six years.

Although it contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956. (This scene serves as an example of the movie's black humor.) During this time, Henry's marriage deteriorates when Karen finds he has a mistress; Karen threatens the other woman so violently that even Cicero has to mediate. According to [1] (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm)boxofficemojo.com this is the 8th highest grossing movie of all time with collections of $794,466,900 US almost surpassing Titanic in adjusted terms. Henry, Conway and DeVito place Batts's bloody corpse in the trunk of their car, stop by DeVito's mother's house to pick up a shovel and a knife, finish killing Batts upstate, bury him in an abandoned plot of rural land – and then discover six months later that the land has been sold to a real estate developer and the (badly decomposed) body has to be re-excavated, moved and reburied. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set against the backdrop of the 1917 Russian Revolution. DeVito's violent streak reaches a crest in June 1970 when he bludgeons to death one Billy Batts (Frank Vincent), a "made man" in the competing Gambino crime family, a major offense that could get them all killed by the Gambinos if discovered. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor and poet. In one of the film's most controversial scenes, DeVito thoughtlessly shoots dead an innocent and unarmed young man (Michael Imperioli), first for not bringing him his drinks fast enough, and then for talking back to him.

Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго) is a novel by Boris Pasternak, which was also adapted by Robert Bolt into a 1965 epic film. As the years go by and Henry earns Cicero's trust, his compadres become more daring (and therefore dangerous)--Conway's excessive love of truck hijacking and grand theft is bad enough, but DeVito is nearly psychotic in his need to prove himself through violence. Watkins & Franklin Milton. Henry also meets and falls in love with Karen (Bracco), although there is conflict between families since Karen's parents are prosperous and Jewish and Hill is himself poor and half-Irish and half-Italian. (Because of his and Jimmy Conway's own mixed ancestry, they can never be actual "made men" – full members of an Italian crime family.) When Karen learns firsthand about what Henry actually does for a living, she is fascinated instead of repelled; it impresses her that Henry has the nerve to steal instead of just "sitting around, waiting for a handout.". Academy Award for Sound - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer : A.W. They help out in a key moneymaking heist, in 1967 stealing over half a million dollars from the Air France cargo terminal paying Cicero his percentage of the take as per the mafia's code of tribute. Academy Award for Film Editing - Norman Savage. As an adult, Henry and his friend Tommy DeVito (Pesci) conspire along with Conway to steal much of the billions of dollars in cargo passing through Idlewild Airport (later JFK).

Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female - Geraldine Chaplin. When Henry is arrested for selling stolen cigarettes, he wisely tells the police nothing and is lauded by his superiors for "being a standup guy.". Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor - Tom Courtenay. The local Lucchese mob captain, Paul Cicero (Paul Sorvino), and Cicero's associate Jimmy Conway (De Niro), help cultivate the boy's developing criminal career. Academy Award for Directing - David Lean. As a boy, Henry idolized the Lucchese crime family gangsters in his blue-collar New York City neighborhood, and in 1955 quit school and went to work for them at a local cab stand, much to the dismay of his working-class parents. Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'or. In the film, Henry Hill, played by Ray Liotta, becomes involved in the mafia at a young age: as he says in the film, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.".

BAFTA Award for Best Film from any source. The film stars Robert De Niro as Jimmy Conway, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, Lorraine Bracco as Hill's wife, Karen Hill, and Joe Pesci as the irascible Tommy DeVito (based on Tommy DeSimone). Academy Award for Best Picture. It is based on the novel Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, which is itself based on a true story. Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color - Phyllis Dalton. Goodfellas is a 1990 film about the mafia directed by Martin Scorsese. Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - Freddie Young.

Golden Globe Award for Original Music Score - Maurice Jarre. Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture - Maurice Jarre. Academy Award for Original Music Score - Maurice Jarre. Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color - John Box, Terry Marsh, Dario Simoni.

Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay - Robert Bolt. Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture - Robert Bolt. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama - Omar Sharif. Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture – David Lean.

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Ingrid Pitt  : extra. Klaus Kinski  : Kostoyed Amourski. Rita Tushingham  : The Girl, Lara's daughter.

Ralph Richardson  : Alexander Gromeko. Siobhan McKenna  : Abnna. Tom Courtenay  : Pasha Antipov/Strelnikov. Yevgraf Zhivago.

Alec Guinness  : Gen. Rod Steiger  : Victor Komarovsky. Geraldine Chaplin  : Tonya. Julie Christie  : Larissa/Lara Antipova.

Yuri Zhivago. Omar Sharif  : Dr.