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Julie Christie in Joseph Losey's The Go-Between Julie Christie, one of the greatest performers of the last half century and an ardent political activist for liberal causes, has her day on Monday, Aug. 2, as part of Turner Classic Movies' "Summer Under the Stars" series. Along with better-known Christie vehicles such as Doctor Zhivago (1965), Darling (1965, right), and Shampoo (1975), TCM will be showing [...]

Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. I'm sure he was well known in the US in the '50s and '60s, but he wasn't the superstar he was in Britain or the top star he was internationally. Perhaps Bogarde just didn't care for Hollywood stardom — certainly not when in Europe he got to work for the likes of Joseph [...]

The nominations for the 2008 Golden Beetles — Sweden's version of the Academy Awards — have been announced. Roy Andersson's best picture nominee You, the Living (above), a low-key comedy about the day-to-day difficulties of human life, was Sweden's entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Academy Award. Late last year, Andersson received a best director nomination at the European Film Awards. Johan Kling's Darling, [...]