Darling comes out on DVD very soon, and of course there's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (good) and Billy Liar (wonderful).
I was very impressed with her in the recent Decade Under the Influence on IFC. She was truly a star with integrity, a pretty face but so very much more than that.
Please discuss all fave Christie moments/roles here.
i love julie christie. she's awesome. i'm currently watching kenneth branagh's hamlet (which is impossible to do in one sitting, i'm convinced) and she's too cool for school
everything she does in Shampoo is pure gold.
and her cameo in Nashville is cute.
The guy who played Gimli in LOTR said that for the scene where he met Galadriel and he was supposed to be amazed, he just thought of the first time he met Julie Christie. That about sums it up. An uber-babe.
I was just watching "Don't Look Now" last week. Great performance.
She has "Neverland", "Troy" and the next "Harry Potter" movie coming up.
Quote from: SoNowThenand her cameo in Nashville is cute.
And Haven Hamilton's dialogue about her makes me laugh my ass off everytime.
Aside from the films mentioned already, I love her in Doctor Zhivago.
Quote from: MacGuffinI was just watching "Don't Look Now" last week. Great performance.
She has "Neverland", "Troy" and the next "Harry Potter" movie coming up.
I saw
Don't Look Now recently for the first time, and she is wonderful in that. As a fan of both Roeg and Christie, I was pretty excited for it, and though it's not quite as good as
Walkabout, it really is quite a nicely done film. Donald Sutherland is very good, too (it's easy to forget the cachet he had back then).
that movie has one of the very few truly "beautiful" movie sex scenes in it
Quote from: SoNowThenthat movie has one of the very few truly "beautiful" movie sex scenes in it
It's also one of the least gratuitous given the film's atmospheric quality, which the sex scene is definitely a part of...
exactly
as much of a red-blooded chauvanist pig that I am, it really bothers me when there's an unecessary sex scene in a movie
but this was one of those rare times when the mood absolutely demanded it.
godardian, I know you're not a fan of Ebert, but you should really read his review on Don't Look Now, it's one of his high moments...
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it really bothers me when there's an unecessary sex scene in a movie
I am so with you on that. Whether between a man and a woman, two men, two women, or other combinations, everything can just grind to a halt for no other reason than mere titillation (or, in the case of bad gay/lesbian movies, mere identification/validation) when you can tell someone just decided they needed to throw some skin into a film (assuming the film is not meant to be pornography).
I'd say the sex in
Mulholland Drive served a narrative/emotional/tonal purpose, too, and is a good example of a non-gratuitous sex scene.
I may try to track down that Ebert review. I'll read it if it's online.
go now:
www.suntimes.com/ebert
then click on "great movies"
and it's under the title
Quote from: SoNowThengo now:
www.suntimes.com/ebert
then click on "great movies"
and it's under the title
Okay, that was more well-written than I've come to expect from Ebert. Much too much plot-recounting, as usual, but the beginning and end are perceptive.
Edit: I also don't think he mentioned Christie once in the whole piece...
but the way he describes the scene we were talking about, and its resonance within the plot, he just had a perfect way of putting it...
Quote from: bonanzatazi'm currently watching kenneth branagh's hamlet (which is impossible to do in one sitting, i'm convinced)
Actually, it is! I was so enthralled with it when I saw it in the theaters that I didn't even get up to use the bathroom until the intermission. It was really painful, but worth it. Last time I buy a large drink before a four hour movie.
Anyway, Julie Christie is true blue. Anyone see Afterglow? Beautiful stuff there, from her and the rest of the cast too.