Away from Her Articles

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony: Part I Among the predictable winners were Julie Christie as best actress in a drama for her performance as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (right, with Gordon Pinsent); Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor in a drama for his star turn as a greedy oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely praised There Will Be [...]

Omar Sharif as Dr. Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara in David Lean’s Doctor Zhivago (top); Julie Christie as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s and Gordon Pinsent as her husband in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (bottom).   Ella Taylor on Julie Christie in the LA Weekly: "Spend half an hour with Christie, and you’ll experience her ambivalence about Hollywood and almost everything else. Plainly shy [...]

VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I Best Supporting Actor: 1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men 2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild 4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War 5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood 6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 7 Tom Wilkinson, [...]

Via indieWIRE — "The Critics Speak: Best, Worst, the Auteurs and the Underrated." Below are a couple of sample quotes: "More people in our world will see Juno than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. More will see 300 than Offside. More will see Saw IV than There Will Be Blood [above]. Yet we fight on, championing those films that really mean something to [...]