Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre, best known for his Oscar-winning association with David Lean in films such as Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984), died in his sleep on March 28 at his home in Malibu after a brief illness. Some reports claimed that Jarre had cancer. He was 84.
Throughout his five-decade career in film and on television Jarre was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning Oscars for the three aforementioned films with Lean. (Following Lawrence of Arabia, Lean only made three more films, all with Jarre as composer. Their other collaboration was Ryan’s Daughter in 1970.)
Jarre also won two British Academy Awards — for Witness (1985) and Dead Poets Society (1989); four [...]
by Andre Soares | March 31, 2009
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Tags: A Passage to India, Composers, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, Eyes Without a Face, Film Music, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kevin Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia, Maurice Jarre, Ryan's Daughter, Witness
Julie Christie in the LA WEEKLY
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 and gun-shy, the actress hates being interviewed as much as she hates speaking in public. But as luck would have it, we had met two weeks earlier at a panel discussion about Away From Her, with Christie, her genial co-star Gordon Pinsent and a preternaturally confident [Sarah] Polley. Only Christie looked as though she was expecting to be [...]
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2008
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Tags: Away from Her, Doctor Zhivago, Ella Taylor, Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, LA Weekly, Omar Sharif
