Doctor Zhivago

by Ian Christie

Published 10 November 2015

The multiple award-winning Doctor Zhivago (1965) is one of America's finest films of all time. Ian Christie contextualizes the film as an epic Russian love story and a Cold War classic, charts its production and reception, including the contribution of designer John Box, and discusses the unique history of the Bruce Pasternak novel it is based on.


A Matter of Life and Death

by Ian Christie

Published 1 September 2000
A dazzling fantasy produced in the aftermath of World War Two, "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, starred David Niven as an RAF pilot poised between life and death. This books looks in detail at the making of the film.