Julie Christie Articles

THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn’t Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): "The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare." Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]

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 [...]

Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie, Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom) Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell Wexler, Jon Voight, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Diablo Cody, and Ashby’s agent Jeff Berg as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salute to Oscar-winning film editor and director Hal Ashby (right) on Thursday, [...]

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