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Would you care to tackle the more ‘adult oriented’ (now mostly forgotten) Julie Andrew’s roles in ‘10’, and especially ‘SOB’? Also who are your top 5 favorite actresses? What are your top 5 favorite male and female star and supporting performances? What are your top 5 or 10 favorite musicals? (I better answer one of these so I’ll choose the last: -The Rocky Horror Picture Show -1776 -Calamity Jane -Little Shop of Horrors -The Wizard of Oz -The Sound of Music -Singing in the Rain -Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -Caberet -7 Brides for 7 Brothers Close calls included Chicago, My Fair Lady, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Grease, and the TV version of Hairspray and The Hobbit. Have you not seen any of those?
Oh, don't feel bad! I had the VHS before the DVD. And I'm a very hetero straight guy. The film is one of my guilty pleasures. I felt disappointed when Chris Plummer started talking trash about the film and considered it his least favorite work. But hey, he's not the main star! The star here is Julie, and she killed it!
31:21 This freaking KILLS me. 1960s film critics were breaking down & scrutinizing individual facial features of FILM ACTRESSES like they were itemizing deductions on their tax returns and somehow left astonished how they came to their boners when apparently the math didn't line up. I mean they really looked down at their finished paragraphs and said to themselves: "Yes, I have done a journalism". Misogyny truly is a force.
@@isaacrichter3269 About right. The expectations of keeping up appearances for women in general is extreme, but goodness knows that for top tier actresses they’re now almost required to spend $100k on their teeth alone. Speaking of appearance, Julie Christie lost weight by Oscars’ season which probably had to do with fitting into the waif ideal of that era. A slow shift of accepting varying ideals of beauty has begun, however in the end it still stands to reason: Women just can’t win! Gah!
Julie C has said she was extremely nervous. She felt it was like getting up in front of the whole class at school and compared it to that. That’s why it was so short. Thanks her director and thanks for the award. The end.
@@johnryskamp2943 well she knew she was most likely going to win. I’m sure she had a little idea of what she was going to say, which was to keep it short and sweet. Darling John Schlesinger is perfect.
Yes if you watch Darling Lili, which lights and frames her with all the classic glamour shots and an accompanying wardrobe and makeup job, it's clear that she was just as much of a bombshell as the other leading ladies of the day.
I first heard about Julie Christie in the Lord of the Rings audio commentary. John Rhys-Davies said that when Gimli saw Galadriel for the first time, he recalled the time that he himself saw Julie Christie for the first time. That helped him summon up the awe and sparkle in his eyes. ❤
If a Live Action Lord of the Rings film had been made during the Sixties, I think Christie would have been an excellent fit as Eowyn (while Geraldine Chaplin could have played Arwen).
@@eamonndeane587 OR Leslie Caron who would have glided about beautifully in diaphanous multi-layered dress looking innocent and sensual at the same time as Arwen. Definite no to Chaplin and generally nowhere near the peice. and I think Christie would have made a perfect Galadriel with Charlotte Rampling an equally perfect Eowyn.
It’s interesting to think about the downfall of the “it girl”. They are THE girl of the moment - which ends quicker than one would like. One of the reasons Julie Andrews has survived (alongside her immense talent and iconic voice) is because she is not of the moment.
And she too had a lengthy slump. She tried to go against type and shake up her Magical Nanny image in films like Star! - which was a biopic about Gertrude Lawrence showing her as an alcoholic and it threw off audiences expecting The Sound of Music again. And the real death knell was Darling Lili - a mean-spirited parody of her image (she does a striptease!) that was one of the biggest bombs of the year, albeit more due to the studio's mismanagement of the production, and she was so annoyed with how it went that she took time off to raise her children (she'd married Blake Edwards in the meantime and inherited his children as well). She had the odd hit like Victor/Victoria but she didn't really 'come back' until The Princess Diaries and Shrek 2, where the parodies of her persona were much more affectionate
The amount of effort and research you put into your videos are remarkable 👏 Julie Christie is a criminally underrated actress and I'm glad that cinema lovers such as yourself are talking so fondly about her.... Julie Christie is an incredible asset to cinema... Great Job, Be Kind Reward 👍
@@Dennisanyone- Winning awards or earning critical acclaim does not necessarily make an actor/actress progress into the mainstream consciousness and the remark I made about Christie being underrated was in parallel to Andrews who is remembered and recognised for those two roles, whereas Christie is not talked about in the same way or as much as Andrew, Something which this video beautifully entails if you had bothered to watch or understand it.
@@zararafridi1051 I of course watched the whole thing so don’t condescend to me. I stand by my statement. It seems like you need a dictionary to comprehend the word underrated. To call any actress who’s won an Oscar, gotten other nominations and received multiple awards, not to mention was in a smash hit like Zhivago, plus other mainstream hits like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait and has legions of fans is ridiculous. Andrews really built her career on two films. Christie has done more interesting work in her off the grid films. She is a international icon. A real underrated actor toils away in the industry, never breaking through to anything, in smaller and maybe larger films where the public at large doesn’t know who they are with little to no acclaim. Christie ain’t this.
Who the fuck looks at Julie Andrews and thinks" ..hmm she's not that pretty"? I have to admit that for years I resisted looking into Julie Christie's work because she beat my favorite Julie, but then I watched "Away From Her" and my God, what a stunning screen presence she is. And that golden outfit must be a Top 3 most stylish acceptance speech looks ever. Gorgeous. Another hit, BKR. Thank you.
I’ve been in love with these women for decades. Andrews best work was for Victor Victoria, but there was no stopping Meryl that year, so at least Julie got a golden globe and Oscar nomination for it. Great background on the Christie phenomenon in the mid 60s. It’s generally conceded that she won the Oscar for her big year for Darling and Zhivago. She did some wonderful work in Petulia after her Oscar win which wasn’t covered here. Christie elevates everything she’s in. Her romance with Beatty took the air out of her career for awhile, even though she managed to do fine work still I.e. McCabe, Don’t Look Now, Madding Crowd. I really love her off the mainstream grid films and they’re definitely worth checking out. She hated Hollywood, and after Beatty, met her current husband and got out. She has also said she never aspired to be another Streep, and prefers the quiet life. I love her Oscar fashion sense. The gold pantsuit the night she won, the black and white polka dot mini skirt to present best actor the next year (some people were shocked by it lol). She’s retired now and has memory issues (not Alzheimer’s so she says) but a degenerative condition where she can’t remember a lot from her past. Thank you both Julies for your excellent films!
I'm sorry to hear that Julie Christie has "memory issues." I believe she received another Oscar nomination for "AWAY FROM HER", a film about the same subject.
@@BroadwayGuy she’s been afflicted with it for sometime. It takes a lot to get her to do any film, probably in part due to this. She’s been with her husband for 40 years (reports vary as to when they exactly tied the knot), so I’m happy she has someone who loves and is committed to her. I’d love to see her do one final film, but it’s probably not in the cards. She’s really content to live her life out of the spotlight. I love Marion Cotillard, but was deeply disappointed when Christie lost the Oscar to her. She’s was amazing in Away From Her.
I'd assume that Ms. Christie's final film role was in "The Company You Keep", directed by and starring Robert Redford and featuring Jackie Evancho in what I presume was a small role.
So sorry to hear she has memory issues. Another of my heroes Terry Pratchett the English humourist, natural philosopher and humanist had the same issues after creating an immense alternate universe in the Disc World. Memory issues are a tragedy wherever they strike, I lost my Dad to Alzheimers nearly four years ago - it's an horrific disease for all concerned.
OMG this is why i LOVE you and your videos! Because you are so right: as someone who grew up in the 1960s, i remember the excitement that followed Julie Christie in 1965: she started out as the "bad" girl in YOUNG CASSIDY (Jack Cardiff took over direction from John Ford, but Ford served as producer and always claimed that he did get to direct the scenes with Julie Christie, whom he claimed would be a big star), then she got her starring role in DARLING (the critical praise was deafening as she was acclaimed as the embodiment of Swinging London) and then she ended the year in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (ok, so THE SOUND OF MUSIC was the biggest box office success... but DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was hot on its heels, a HUGE box office success and an epic romance and that damned Lara's Theme was ubiquitous). She was the "It" Girl of 1965, and her win was inevitable (and accepted as such).
Thank you for this. And it reminds me of a thing I thought while watching this: Why has Christie disappeared from our consciousness? And not only Christie, the whole category of mid-late 60ies "new woman" is sort of just a foot note in fashion history.
@@AsptuberI think it could be that Christie’s cultural image was always as translucent as her acting style (which is itself polarizing for people), and she never pushed herself as an Icon or Symbol after that initial explosion into the zeitgeist, which made her even more enigmatic in the consciousness. The fact that she stuck to smaller/arthouse films after her commercial run in the 60s/70s, combined with her acting minimalism and non-dramatic personal life made her slip away from younger generations knowing her or reclaiming her as a modern icon (like Audrey Hepburn). Nick Davis does a brilliant write up on why Christie is such a fascinating presence and why her status as a “new woman” is tied into her on screen persona as well, that while it seems she’s only of that moment in the mid 60s as a symbol of liberation, her on screen artistry is actually still as relevant and prescient as ever.
I remember when I was a teenager and Finding Neverland came out and my dad took me to see it, when Julie Christie's character came on screen my dad popped up. He later told me the old mother character was played by one of the biggest, most beautiful actresses from back in the day. I don't know why but that always stuck with me.
As one of the three people alive who has not seen “The Sound of Music,” I am a fan of both Christie and Andrews and am glad that Christie won an Oscar for “Darling.”
My father was her personal driver in the late 70"s... I was obsessed. She came for dinner at our flat in Hampstead. she was so charming. We had a house in Tintern, and I remember her taking my brother and I to a chicken factory, we stole all these chicklets, like 100?? and took them home and essentially rescued them. She was a fierce vegan. And influenced me to never eat meat again. Still to this day.
Julie Christie's performance in "Away From Her" broke my heart into so many pieces. Sarah Polley landing her and Gordon Pinsent was a true coup and 16 years later it's still remains one of my favourite films. Thanks for this video🥰
@nickxero2740 At the time, MARY POPPINS was the biggest hit in Disney history. THE SOUND OF MUSIC was the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox history, and saved the studio. HAWAII was the biggest box office success released in 1966. TORN CURTAIN was the biggest hit in Universal's history; the following year, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE replaced it as the biggest hit in Universal history. THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY did well for MGM upon first release, and then made plenty more when it was re-released in 1967. That is far more than "the good fortune to be in a wildly popular musical". By the end of the 1960s, she and John Wayne had been the biggest stars worldwide for the decade.
@@knguyennguyen5559She only has those two movies, whereas Christie’s artistry expands way beyond just two.
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Izzy, let me just say the last days of every month are the best days for me. I can't thank you enough for the work and knowledge you share with us. I've been obsessed about your channel for four years now, and It keeps getting consistently better every month. Thank you!
She may not have been the first crush of my youth, but she inspired my idea of an ideal --- fresh, modern, free, beautiful and of substance. One second looking into those beautiful eyes made you feel like you could touch her soul.
I've been waiting for this edition the entire time. I love any chance that anyone gets to talk about Julie Christie. The most unique of all personalities in the film industry.
i am in need of comfort at the moment and your content is incredibly comforting to me, watched all of your videos dozens of times. thank you for your content and your passion and hard work you put in for us. ❤
You could be speaking for me Scroopy. I'm in need of comfort too. Badly. Thank God we're intelligent enough to escape into the attic of our minds, with the help of people like BKR. Peace, love, empathy from a crappy place in Australia. PS Every little thing will be okay.
Thank you for the video. I love this!! For modern time viewers like me, we don't really appreciate the work that Christie did, but in another sphere, Christie is an definite icon for her fashion. I leaned a lot!
Julie Andrews gave me two totally different views of her in my youth. The sweet nanny/nun in the 60s and an actress exposing her full breats in SOB in the 80s; the most iconic scene in the movie.
...And the world was SHOCKED. The same with Romy Schneider, who had broken away from her Sissi clusters, and played in the quite gory crime film The Infernal Trio. Black humor as I never had seen before! That film made me a Romy Schneider fan for life. And yes, Julie Christie became another idol. The drama in The Go-Between nestles under Christie's skin (and of the other actors, veteran Margaret Leighton was phenomenal too) Excellent docu, again! I'll look up the others.
I’ve heard of Julie Christie in ‘Afterglow’ and ‘Shampoo’ but I never knew that both were contemporaries. That’s cool. So excited to see what we have in store in this video.
I think your Oscar-Actress-videos are some of the best content available on youtube. Your masterpiece is the two-part video of the 1962 Best Actress Oscar race covering Anne Bancroft and most of all the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. But thank you for your recent 1983 Shirley MacLaine and this 1965 Julie-Julie-gem of a video. You do important work as you help rediscover great actresses, their work and most of all the discourses around their public images: Julie Christie is a fascinating and very underappreciated actress and star. Due to her political beliefs and ultra independent project choices, she somehow was made invisible by public discourse: They couldn't handle her indepence, non-confirmity and outspoken-ness. I immediately want to see ,Darling', which I try to find for some years but haven't been able to. It's rarely screened and not the movie you find in your average streaming service. Any tip where I can find it?
When I was a teenager, I was drawn to British New Wave films. Of course, I read Doctor Zhivago and just fell in love with the 1965 film. I read the book and watch the 1965 film every winter. Julie Christie is more than just an oil infusion of the 60s on screen, she is an artist among celebrities, like Daniel Day-Lewis. I love how you captured her contributions to film and raised her up. She is worth raising up. I thought she deserved her Oscar immensely for the right film. I am glad she is still with us.
I love your videos! Super excited for this video - Miss Christie is a REVELATION in Away From Her. It always breaks your heart when she says, "I think I'm beginning to disappear."
The first time I saw Julie Christie was in Afterglow when it came out. She also played Gertrude in Kenneth Barannaghs Hamlet around this time. I was so impressed by her and I still don't get how she is always able to fly under the radar. I've since seen every movie she's done, many of them more than once. For all the movie stars that are overrated I would put her as one of the most underrated.
Could my love for this channel get any stronger? Such an excellent breakdown of Julie Christie, a brilliant actress modern audiences unfortunately don’t know enough about. Darling remains a mesmerizing portrait of ambition, narcissism, and alienation. Perhaps even more vital to the vibes of this century. A true testament to Christie’s electrifying performance. Keep creating these amazing, informative videos; they always provoke thoughts & brighten moods ❤
The Sound of Music is a Christmas tradition for my sisters and I. We sit down and watch it every year. We have our elementary school music teacher to thank for introducing the musical.
Everytime you drop an episode, is an event! Another fantastic, well researched and informative episode. You knowledge and insight is unsurpassed! When Americans describe the UK and British culture, there us always a tendency to fall back on lazy clichés and inaccuracies. However, you definitely do not fall into this category! So impressed by this meticulous and thoroughly researched episode which does so much justice not only to both Julies but also accurately reflects and contextualise Swinging London and societal changes that were the backdrop to Christie and Andrews' 1966 Oscar campaign. Bravo from this British fan! Xx
Wow! I grew up on Julie Christie films! Fahrenheit 451 and Darling are my favorites. I was lucky my grandma had a copy of Darling on VHS tape for me to discover as a teenager many years ago. I heard she’s Al Pacino’s favorite actress and I get it. May I suggest Karen Black for a future video? She is one of my favorites as well. 💕
Watching this video a few months out but knew I needed to comment at 21:07 because I studied abroad in Austria and the first night we were there they had everyone meet in the biggest classroom (we didn’t know what to expect and thought maybe it was another meeting about rules or classes), they had brought in couches and blankets so everyone could sit, then they brought in cases of a local beer and radlers (lemonade and beer popular in Eastern Europe and sooo good haha) and then they darkened the room and started playing the sound of music on the projector. Everyone cheered, I remember getting goosebumps as the music started to swell. It was an incredible experience and we were VERY engaged. We yelled like that example. It’s one of my favorite memories, a bunch of college students watching the sound of music literally like it was endgame cause we were so excited to be in the country where the story is from!
i watched the sound of music for the first time a few weeks ago and i was used to seeing julie andrews in her perfect little poised characters, those got it all together grown up elegant characters. It was super refreshing to see her in more of a childlike dreamer against all odds character
Really appreciate your "setting" (like a diamond in a ring) of Julie Christie's career, particularly the way you break away to focus on London during the 1960s, which makes this a cultural-historical commentary, as well as a study of an actress. Very thoughtful.
Thanks for a very interesting commentary on these two great iconic stars! I'm 75 and was in my teens in the 1960s and became a professional fashion illustrator in NYC so I remember very well the "Swinging 60s and the London look" and went to Carnaby Street in London in the late 60s, very colorful! I think Dr. Zhivago, a gorgeous film is one of the all time great romantic epic films and I saw it six times in a row when it came out! Christie was also wonderful in other period films like Far From the Madding Crowd that has a musical film score that is a masterpiece imho! Both stars are in their 80s now and Christie was interviewed again recently and she stated that she 'hardly remembers who that young girl was" in the 60s referring to herself!! Thankfully, their youthful images and legendary performances are preserved for the ages!
Oh i can see how much fun you've had with this video) Stellar work as always, I have not even heard of Julie Christie before that, but I will be checking more of her performances now
Julie Christie has been one of my 'major crushes' for years. Years ago whilst working in West London I actually asked her out on a date; it was the nicest most gracious refusal I've ever had.
There is a reason I own Darling on DVD. Two words: Julie Christie. I still tell every person I meet and share my movie recommendations to watch Darling. Of course, they never heard of it or Julie, but I will never stop name dropping it in conversation. Away from Her further proves the greatness that is Julie Christie.
I think her anti-heroine character in "McCabe And Mrs. Miller" (no pun intended) is the best Julie Christie role. However, her work in "Shampoo" and "Heaven Can Wait" made me fall madly in love with her. That and her amazing smile. Damn.
I love love love this so much!! I'll never forget how my life was changed when one of my high school teachers showed me Doctor Zhivago and I just immediately fell in love with her entire artistry and aesthetics!!!
Julie Christie was artist in residence in the drama school of my college here in Melbourne some time ago, and she was absolutely wonderful. Beautiful and very, very inspiring. This is a great video, you’ve captured so much here!
Kudos for pronouncing Yorkshire correctly, believe me as an English person it’s greatly appreciated. It’s the little things, brilliant video as always, Julie Christie is iconic especially the image of her in the black sequin dress and fantastic haircut in Shampoo.
In this video, you made mention of the romanticized history of the films from this period (Dr Zhivago, Sound of Music), and I think that that phenomenon would be a great topic for a future video. Both Sound of Music and Dr Z go to great lengths to disguise the real horrors of their settings. As we know, Hollywood has a long history of this: From Gone with the Wind, South Pacific, and West Side Story... all the way up to this year's The Woman King. Even Cabaret, which is pretty dark for a musical, glosses over the actual Holocaust. I would love to see someone like yourself do a long-form video addressing Hollywood's countless historical errors, why they do it, and what long-term effect it's had on our collective historical ignorance.
Cabaret is supposed to be pre-Holocaust. More specifically, Weimar Republic Germany. Half the point of Cabaret is how flippant, self-centered obliviousness enabled fascism to rise unchecked.
I advocate this essay needs to be done. I always find the "it's just a movie, it's for entertainment" argument kind of flawed. To give safe, not-that-controversial example, it's like the Jurassic World films and scientific accuracy in regards to the dinosaurs themselves. Yes, they don't NEED to be exact, but considering it is the biggest exposure of paleontology in popular media, thereby what most people will subconsciously go off of, and MOST of it is almost purposely outdated, I get why people get mad at it.
This series is so well researched and well presented. You have a real gift (backed up by hard work) at digging into your material and making it accessible to a lay audience.
My mum was a young woman in London in the 60s and she had a more realistic view. It WAS exciting and optimistic, and the new freedoms were soaking into the young population, but the social issues, tired Victorian slums, and half-ruined buildings had not just vanished between 1961 and 1963. England still had many of the same problems they'd had before the rise of the Mod. However, becoming The Place To Be did help London recover from the war, not at least through a tourism boom.
No mention of Julie Andrews' 1964 starring title role in "The Americanization of Emily". This definitely carried weight in tandom with her formal 1964 "Mary Poppins" Oscar win. The public and academy voters saw two diverse performances.
I loved Julie Christie in “Fahrenheit 451” where she played two very different characters, brilliantly. I suppose it’s not an especially well known film, but one that I think is very relevant today and worth seeing.
I was grinding my jaw at the comparisons between Julie Andrews and Julie Christie. God, they could just never leave it alone. Women must always be pit against each other. Ugh.
I used to review films. Now I just do film analysis on occasion on podcasts . Your videos feature nice prints for clips and a good , solid amount of research. These are some of the best film videos on you tube. It's enjoyable to watch.
I absolutely love all the videos this channel continues to put out. The research and the planing that goes behind each and everyone of theses videos is outstanding! I particularly appreciate this video, as today happens to be Julie Andrews' 87 birthday. Don't know if that was planned but I love it anyways.
My Nana worshipped Julie Andrews. Any movie of her on the TV was treated as an event . And that's why up to this day, after my Nana passed away over a decade ago and I haven't lived on my birth country for years, I can still remember parts of Mary and Sound songs, in my mother language.
YESSSSSSSS a julie andrews AND julie christie video???? something ive noticed about british actresses is how 'cool' they are-they seem to be able to fit in both high and low culture roles simultaneously w/o diminishing their authenticity in either (think of HBC playing the queen mother and marla from fight club). I feel like this is something far far rarer in american actresses at least from the 60s on.
Yes! Finally. Christie, along with Laurence Harvey and Dirk Bogarde were perfectly cast in Darling. The ennui of the upper classes. One of my fave films. Thanks for this considerate video.
Well, I'm 36 so I would no longer be considered younger audience. But I remember seeing her for the first time in McCabe & Mrs. Miller. I thought she was phenomenal. and then I saw her in ׳Away From Her׳ and my thoughts about her haven't changed. I will check out Darling tonight though.
Julie Christie really deserved a Nomination for Heat and Dust (One of Merchant Ivory's Best Films). Julie Andrews being called "Frumpish"...? DISGRACEFUL!!!!!!! That woman wore Dior in The Tamarind Seed and she wore it Beautifully!
What can I say? Again, so interesting and so well narrated and edited and created. You never disappoint. PS: The Sound Of Music is basically unknown in Germany. I'm 36 and it was never on TV and not part of our movie or pop culture whatsoever. I've heard of it probably in my early 20s and literally watched it a year ago for the first time.
That's interesting. Why do you think that is? I've heard that Germany's modern education and popular media is really good at teaching the history of Nazis, WWII and the Holocaust. In that context, Sound of Music would probs seem at best juvenile and at worst, like it's undermining the seriousness of what happened.
Not a German, but an Eastern European. The Sound of music is an obscure film here, more like an artefact of the mid-century US pop culture. The first time I watched I was shocked to discover their ideas about WWII. It is a thoroughly bizarre movie.
@@jaffa4242 During the 1950s, two films about the Trapp Family singers were huge successes in Germany and Austria. Maria Von Trapp sold all rights to their story to the German film company. When Mary Martin wanted Rodgers and Hammerstein to write a Broadway musical of it for her, she and her husband bought the rights from the German film company, and Maria Von Trapp did not make a dime from that resale. In turn, Martin & Halliday later sold their rights to 20th Century Fox to make the film adaptation of her Broadway smash. For this clever action, Martin & Halliday earned the present-day equivalent of an unbelievable $100 million. And the two German films were pulled from release, never to be heard of again, basically. Germany and Austria did not take favorably to the film; in fact, one German distributor cut the film to end at the wedding, until Fox executives sued the and won restoration of the cut footage. The Austrians did not want Robert Wise to film the Anschluss and initially denied him permission to use the swastika in public or to film the takeover. They wanted to maintain the fiction that the Austrians had essentially opposed the Anschluss (something like 73% of the electorate had voted for it, in fact). Wise then told them. "Okay. We will use the historical footage that shows the Nazis being warmly welcomed by the population." Worried Salzburg officials then agreed to the filming, upon condition that the troops could be shown marching in but no crowds cheering them. That's what Wise filmed, and the echoing sounds of their footsteps on the empty cobbled streets makes the Anschluss even more eerie and powerful.
I've always been obsessed with both performances (and films) and you deconstructed everything so brilliantly, that I finally understood this special moment in film history and feminism.
THANK YOU for this video! There is another British actress that took America by storm in the 1960s and 1970s; she won two Oscars which is an impressive achievement for any actress that is not American by birth. Her name is Glenda Jackson. Could you make a video about this versatile actress that has won awards in theatre and in the cinema and is still going strong in her 80s? Thanks, and keep up the good work.
God I find Julie Christie fascinating, and the explanation of her career trajectory made her taking on the role of Susan in ‘Demon Seed’ make sense. Should you ever want to branch out to Saturn Awards nominees, that’d be a great video 😂
My friend’s grandad swears he once saw Julie Christie in a small UK village in a city called Hull. For years no one believed him until we discovered Julie’s brother, Clive, is a university lecturer in Hull 😂
I'm a big fan of 60s British cinema. There's really nothing out there quite like the British 60s and it was a transformative moment for the world, and its respite and antidote to the horrors of WW2. This dive makes me wonder if there's ever gonna be a look into Rita Tushingham, who's never really been super famous or even an Oscar nominee, but she's just someone I like and who's been in films that I love.
Hi I loved your channel for years now and I loved your concept about the cinema of Dolly Parton and I thought it would be a great idea to do more on singers turned actresses such as Diana Ross,Cher,Beyoncé,Queen Latifah or Lady Gaga other I feel like you would be the best authority on discussing the phenomenon of female musicians turned actresses
I much prefer Mary Poppins to The Sound of Music, and much prefer Julie Andrews' performance as Poppins (though her performance as Maria is great too). Her performance as Poppins is pitch perfect; such control and lack of sentiment, very knowing but also very charming and mysterious, and such precision. I feel it is the best thing she ever did. (I'm also a fan of Victor/Victoria.)
I think people who follow her on instagram (where she made this poll) are film buffs (duh) and maybe have similar tastes to Academy. Meaning Sound of Music which in the end is biopic of a real woman and family dealing with Nazi’s, is more prestigious than Disney partially animated film. But I am glad Academy in 60s once actually did reward a performance in a film that wasn’t a typical Oscar fare. Because the Mary Poppins film is amazing and she makes the role.
@@sarasamaletdin4574 The Sound of Music at the end of the day is a movie for everyone, for the children you have the fun music nanny-children dynamics while for the adults you have the romance between Maria and Captain Von Trapp
I first watched Darling as a late night feature on Turner Classic Movies when I was a teenager. To be fair, the film flew over my head for the most part, but I was so taken by Julie Christie’s character at the time. It actually fueled my own Anglophile obsession with mid 1960s mod culture. I can easily see how at the time film critics and writers were wrapped up in “Swinging London” youth culture of the era. I’m not one for yearning to be born at any particular time in history (I.e. bemoaning “I was born in the wrong generation!”) but if time travel was just a bit possible, to live amongst the mods and experience Carnaby Street would be glorious!
Actually, Julie Christie DID spend the Christmas before the Oscars as a house guest of Julie Andrews, where they sang carols and engaged in other Christmas activities. Cheers.
@Nick Xero Thanks for commenting. Julie Andrews' husband, Tony Walton, designed the sets for the film Christie was working on ("Fahrenheit 451"), so they invited her to spend the holidays with them. This would have been during the time she was dating the artist Don Bessant. The publicity people actually suggested that they repeat doing this during the lead-up to the Oscars, but their agents nixed it because their hectic schedules would have made it impossible. My favourite Julie Christie film? "The Return of the Soldier." Take care.
OMG do I love Julie Christie she has been in a way more sustaining in British culture and movies etc then Julie Andrews, however, one thing that Julie Christie doesn't have and basically no one on the planet that h as acted has is Julie Andrews voice. So massively underrated. Basically no one could have done what Julie Andrews did in the sound of music as fantastically as she did. No one had that kind of musical talent. She wasn't just an actress she was basically one of the best public singers of the 20th century. It's hard to compare with That voice. Somehow we seem to forget she didn't just act her ass off, she sang better than anyone could have in that role.
she also gave a performance (and not only with this one role at that) that remained iconic even after nearly 6 decades and I highly doubt there's a musical performance as charming (and that also happens to be complete) as hers in sound of music, so there's that too
That thing of having actresses look very sixties when they're supposed to be in a different time period was pretty common. Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou, Angie Dickinson in The Last Challenge and even Fay Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde looks a little more "60's" than "30"s.
Yeah, in the 1995 "making of" documentary the costume designer for Doctor Zhivago conceded that they accidentally let the hair be "too '60s". See Geraldine Chaplain's beehive in the film.
Thanks for another wonderful video. I laughed out loud when you said "WTF" about Andrew's appearance. Even though your videos are clearly smart and perceptive, they are also really entertaining and funny too.
I’m not very familiar with Julie Christie but I do remember that in the Lord of the Rings bts interviews John Rhys-Davis said he based Gimli’s interaction with Galadriel on the time he met Julie Christie because she had such an effect on him
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You should do a future video on Sophia Loren’s Oscar win and being the first non-English speaking performance winning an acting Oscar.
Would you care to tackle the more ‘adult oriented’ (now mostly forgotten) Julie Andrew’s roles in ‘10’, and especially ‘SOB’? Also who are your top 5 favorite actresses? What are your top 5 favorite male and female star and supporting performances? What are your top 5 or 10 favorite musicals? (I better answer one of these so I’ll choose the last:
-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
-1776
-Calamity Jane
-Little Shop of Horrors
-The Wizard of Oz
-The Sound of Music
-Singing in the Rain
-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
-Caberet
-7 Brides for 7 Brothers
Close calls included Chicago, My Fair Lady, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Grease, and the TV version of Hairspray and The Hobbit. Have you not seen any of those?
Oh, don't feel bad! I had the VHS before the DVD. And I'm a very hetero straight guy. The film is one of my guilty pleasures. I felt disappointed when Chris Plummer started talking trash about the film and considered it his least favorite work. But hey, he's not the main star! The star here is Julie, and she killed it!
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Exactlyyyyy
We must all lead rather similar existences. Poor us lol!
31:21 This freaking KILLS me. 1960s film critics were breaking down & scrutinizing individual facial features of FILM ACTRESSES like they were itemizing deductions on their tax returns and somehow left astonished how they came to their boners when apparently the math didn't line up. I mean they really looked down at their finished paragraphs and said to themselves: "Yes, I have done a journalism".
Misogyny truly is a force.
Reading reviews like that, I begin to understand how plastic surgery became so popular... Yeesh!
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About right. The expectations of keeping up appearances for women in general is extreme, but goodness knows that for top tier actresses they’re now almost required to spend $100k on their teeth alone. Speaking of appearance, Julie Christie lost weight by Oscars’ season which probably had to do with fitting into the waif ideal of that era.
A slow shift of accepting varying ideals of beauty has begun, however in the end it still stands to reason: Women just can’t win! Gah!
You need to understand that these were the same men who thought women couldn't be decent critics because they might fancy the actors.
He was basically saying she's a 7/10
@@SEGAClownboss Meanwhile the reviewers? Mid.
Julie Christie's Oscars speech/reaction is one of the most authentic, genuine things i have ever seen
Julie C has said she was extremely nervous. She felt it was like getting up in front of the whole class at school and compared it to that. That’s why it was so short. Thanks her director and thanks for the award. The end.
She acts like a silly child.
It's not entirely unpremeditated. She calls her director her "darling" John Schlsinger.
@@johnryskamp2943 well she knew she was most likely going to win. I’m sure she had a little idea of what she was going to say, which was to keep it short and sweet. Darling John Schlesinger is perfect.
She had such an adorable reaction. Kinda like Marion Cotillard.
It’s BIZARRE to me that people didn’t find Julie Andrews beyond beautiful and with classy and elegant style that is still awesome to this day.
Yes if you watch Darling Lili, which lights and frames her with all the classic glamour shots and an accompanying wardrobe and makeup job, it's clear that she was just as much of a bombshell as the other leading ladies of the day.
I think they did.
I first heard about Julie Christie in the Lord of the Rings audio commentary. John Rhys-Davies said that when Gimli saw Galadriel for the first time, he recalled the time that he himself saw Julie Christie for the first time. That helped him summon up the awe and sparkle in his eyes. ❤
If a Live Action Lord of the Rings film had been made during the Sixties, I think Christie would have been an excellent fit as Eowyn (while Geraldine Chaplin could have played Arwen).
@@eamonndeane587 Geraldine Chaplin! Fucking yes to that!
@@eamonndeane587 OR Leslie Caron who would have glided about beautifully in diaphanous multi-layered dress looking innocent and sensual at the same time as Arwen. Definite no to Chaplin and generally nowhere near the peice. and I think Christie would have made a perfect Galadriel with Charlotte Rampling an equally perfect Eowyn.
Me too! I then googled her
It’s interesting to think about the downfall of the “it girl”. They are THE girl of the moment - which ends quicker than one would like. One of the reasons Julie Andrews has survived (alongside her immense talent and iconic voice) is because she is not of the moment.
And she too had a lengthy slump. She tried to go against type and shake up her Magical Nanny image in films like Star! - which was a biopic about Gertrude Lawrence showing her as an alcoholic and it threw off audiences expecting The Sound of Music again. And the real death knell was Darling Lili - a mean-spirited parody of her image (she does a striptease!) that was one of the biggest bombs of the year, albeit more due to the studio's mismanagement of the production, and she was so annoyed with how it went that she took time off to raise her children (she'd married Blake Edwards in the meantime and inherited his children as well). She had the odd hit like Victor/Victoria but she didn't really 'come back' until The Princess Diaries and Shrek 2, where the parodies of her persona were much more affectionate
And S.O.B. from 1981 is hers and Edwards' big middle finger to the industry.
Are you implying Julie Christie was just an it girl?
The amount of effort and research you put into your videos are remarkable 👏 Julie Christie is a criminally underrated actress and I'm glad that cinema lovers such as yourself are talking so fondly about her.... Julie Christie is an incredible asset to cinema... Great Job, Be Kind Reward 👍
Christie has won an Oscar, plus three other nominations and a slew of other awards and has a legion of fans. Isn’t that the opposite of underrated?
@@Dennisanyone- yes he was being ridiculous
@@Dennisanyone- Winning awards or earning critical acclaim does not necessarily make an actor/actress progress into the mainstream consciousness and the remark I made about Christie being underrated was in parallel to Andrews who is remembered and recognised for those two roles, whereas Christie is not talked about in the same way or as much as Andrew, Something which this video beautifully entails if you had bothered to watch or understand it.
@@zararafridi1051 I of course watched the whole thing so don’t condescend to me. I stand by my statement. It seems like you need a dictionary to comprehend the word underrated. To call any actress who’s won an Oscar, gotten other nominations and received multiple awards, not to mention was in a smash hit like Zhivago, plus other mainstream hits like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait and has legions of fans is ridiculous. Andrews really built her career on two films. Christie has done more interesting work in her off the grid films. She is a international icon. A real underrated actor toils away in the industry, never breaking through to anything, in smaller and maybe larger films where the public at large doesn’t know who they are with little to no acclaim. Christie ain’t this.
@@Dennisanyone- Also for example Mary Pickford had an unparalleled phenomenon yet she is not remembered by many people
Who the fuck looks at Julie Andrews and thinks" ..hmm she's not that pretty"? I have to admit that for years I resisted looking into Julie Christie's work because she beat my favorite Julie, but then I watched "Away From Her" and my God, what a stunning screen presence she is. And that golden outfit must be a Top 3 most stylish acceptance speech looks ever. Gorgeous. Another hit, BKR. Thank you.
Exactly. Julie Andrews is one of the most stunning women I've ever seen. She has a timeless beauty.
THAT scene of Julie Christie crying in the hospital in 'Darling'... Once in a while I still think about that scene. She totally deserved her Oscar 😍
I’ve been in love with these women for decades. Andrews best work was for Victor Victoria, but there was no stopping Meryl that year, so at least Julie got a golden globe and Oscar nomination for it. Great background on the Christie phenomenon in the mid 60s. It’s generally conceded that she won the Oscar for her big year for Darling and Zhivago. She did some wonderful work in Petulia after her Oscar win which wasn’t covered here. Christie elevates everything she’s in. Her romance with Beatty took the air out of her career for awhile, even though she managed to do fine work still I.e. McCabe, Don’t Look Now, Madding Crowd. I really love her off the mainstream grid films and they’re definitely worth checking out. She hated Hollywood, and after Beatty, met her current husband and got out. She has also said she never aspired to be another Streep, and prefers the quiet life. I love her Oscar fashion sense. The gold pantsuit the night she won, the black and white polka dot mini skirt to present best actor the next year (some people were shocked by it lol). She’s retired now and has memory issues (not Alzheimer’s so she says) but a degenerative condition where she can’t remember a lot from her past. Thank you both Julies for your excellent films!
I'm sorry to hear that Julie Christie has "memory issues." I believe she received another Oscar nomination for "AWAY FROM HER", a film about the same subject.
@@BroadwayGuy she’s been afflicted with it for sometime. It takes a lot to get her to do any film, probably in part due to this. She’s been with her husband for 40 years (reports vary as to when they exactly tied the knot), so I’m happy she has someone who loves and is committed to her. I’d love to see her do one final film, but it’s probably not in the cards. She’s really content to live her life out of the spotlight. I love Marion Cotillard, but was deeply disappointed when Christie lost the Oscar to her. She’s was amazing in Away From Her.
I'd assume that Ms. Christie's final film role was in "The Company You Keep", directed by and starring Robert Redford and featuring Jackie Evancho in what I presume was a small role.
So sorry to hear she has memory issues. Another of my heroes Terry Pratchett the English humourist, natural philosopher and humanist had the same issues after creating an immense alternate universe in the Disc World. Memory issues are a tragedy wherever they strike, I lost my Dad to Alzheimers nearly four years ago - it's an horrific disease for all concerned.
Julie Christie was also in Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty. A cute movie. A remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
OMG this is why i LOVE you and your videos! Because you are so right: as someone who grew up in the 1960s, i remember the excitement that followed Julie Christie in 1965: she started out as the "bad" girl in YOUNG CASSIDY (Jack Cardiff took over direction from John Ford, but Ford served as producer and always claimed that he did get to direct the scenes with Julie Christie, whom he claimed would be a big star), then she got her starring role in DARLING (the critical praise was deafening as she was acclaimed as the embodiment of Swinging London) and then she ended the year in DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (ok, so THE SOUND OF MUSIC was the biggest box office success... but DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was hot on its heels, a HUGE box office success and an epic romance and that damned Lara's Theme was ubiquitous). She was the "It" Girl of 1965, and her win was inevitable (and accepted as such).
Thank you for this. And it reminds me of a thing I thought while watching this:
Why has Christie disappeared from our consciousness?
And not only Christie, the whole category of mid-late 60ies "new woman" is sort of just a foot note in fashion history.
My Mom even bought the Lara's Theme single despite earning very little money in her job at that time. That movie was BIG
@Asp Tuber She loved acting but Not stardom. I think
@@AsptuberI think it could be that Christie’s cultural image was always as translucent as her acting style (which is itself polarizing for people), and she never pushed herself as an Icon or Symbol after that initial explosion into the zeitgeist, which made her even more enigmatic in the consciousness. The fact that she stuck to smaller/arthouse films after her commercial run in the 60s/70s, combined with her acting minimalism and non-dramatic personal life made her slip away from younger generations knowing her or reclaiming her as a modern icon (like Audrey Hepburn).
Nick Davis does a brilliant write up on why Christie is such a fascinating presence and why her status as a “new woman” is tied into her on screen persona as well, that while it seems she’s only of that moment in the mid 60s as a symbol of liberation, her on screen artistry is actually still as relevant and prescient as ever.
I remember when I was a teenager and Finding Neverland came out and my dad took me to see it, when Julie Christie's character came on screen my dad popped up. He later told me the old mother character was played by one of the biggest, most beautiful actresses from back in the day.
I don't know why but that always stuck with me.
I agree with you about the writers criticizing Julie Andrews looks. She was so beautiful, what were they thinking?
As one of the three people alive who has not seen “The Sound of Music,” I am a fan of both Christie and Andrews and am glad that Christie won an Oscar for “Darling.”
Two of three here! Remind me, when is the summit meeting this year?
Are you never gonna see tsom ? It’s a classic and Julie shines in it
@@Tradhistorian Probably not.
Bingo, three of three! We should start a band and call it No Sound Of Music
edit: ...which is actually a very good band name!
It's so good! Highly reccomended watching it. It's one of Andrews' best performances. It's on Disney+ I believe.
My father was her personal driver in the late 70"s... I was obsessed. She came for dinner at our flat in Hampstead. she was so charming. We had a house in Tintern, and I remember her taking my brother and I to a chicken factory, we stole all these chicklets, like 100?? and took them home and essentially rescued them. She was a fierce vegan. And influenced me to never eat meat again. Still to this day.
She did the same thing with Warren and made him a vegan too. Id love to hear more about this.
Julie Christie's performance in "Away From Her" broke my heart into so many pieces. Sarah Polley landing her and Gordon Pinsent was a true coup and 16 years later it's still remains one of my favourite films.
Thanks for this video🥰
“I’m an honest, working grrrl!” I have seen Darling only 50 times. SO many memorable tiny moments. Miss Julie’s perf is ferocious. Thx for posting!
I deeply respect the work of both actresses. That said, JA has the staying power of a true superstar.
I agree. JC’s persona was of a certain era, but JA’s is timeless.
@Nick Xero 2 wild popular movies back to back: Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music
@nickxero2740 At the time, MARY POPPINS was the biggest hit in Disney history. THE SOUND OF MUSIC was the biggest hit in 20th Century Fox history, and saved the studio. HAWAII was the biggest box office success released in 1966. TORN CURTAIN was the biggest hit in Universal's history; the following year, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE replaced it as the biggest hit in Universal history. THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY did well for MGM upon first release, and then made plenty more when it was re-released in 1967. That is far more than "the good fortune to be in a wildly popular musical". By the end of the 1960s, she and John Wayne had been the biggest stars worldwide for the decade.
@@knguyennguyen5559She only has those two movies, whereas Christie’s artistry expands way beyond just two.
Izzy, let me just say the last days of every month are the best days for me. I can't thank you enough for the work and knowledge you share with us. I've been obsessed about your channel for four years now, and It keeps getting consistently better every month. Thank you!
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She may not have been the first crush of my youth, but she inspired my idea of an ideal --- fresh, modern, free, beautiful and of substance. One second looking into those beautiful eyes made you feel like you could touch her soul.
I've been waiting for this edition the entire time. I love any chance that anyone gets to talk about Julie Christie. The most unique of all personalities in the film industry.
No one makes more enjoyable videos about things I really never think about than you do. Yours is a real skill.
I have never clicked so quickly - THANK YOU for giving my Julies the attention they need, especially Julie Christie!
i am in need of comfort at the moment and your content is incredibly comforting to me, watched all of your videos dozens of times. thank you for your content and your passion and hard work you put in for us. ❤
You could be speaking for me Scroopy. I'm in need of comfort too. Badly. Thank God we're intelligent enough to escape into the attic of our minds, with the help of people like BKR. Peace, love, empathy from a crappy place in Australia. PS Every little thing will be okay.
Thank you for the video. I love this!! For modern time viewers like me, we don't really appreciate the work that Christie did, but in another sphere, Christie is an definite icon for her fashion. I leaned a lot!
Julie Andrews gave me two totally different views of her in my youth. The sweet nanny/nun in the 60s and an actress exposing her full breats in SOB in the 80s; the most iconic scene in the movie.
...And the world was SHOCKED. The same with Romy Schneider, who had broken away from her Sissi clusters, and played in the quite gory crime film The Infernal Trio. Black humor as I never had seen before! That film made me a Romy Schneider fan for life.
And yes, Julie Christie became another idol. The drama in The Go-Between nestles under Christie's skin (and of the other actors, veteran Margaret Leighton was phenomenal too)
Excellent docu, again! I'll look up the others.
I’ve heard of Julie Christie in ‘Afterglow’ and ‘Shampoo’ but I never knew that both were contemporaries. That’s cool. So excited to see what we have in store in this video.
I don't even remember what I voted for lol. Excited for this video!!!
I think your Oscar-Actress-videos are some of the best content available on youtube.
Your masterpiece is the two-part video of the 1962 Best Actress Oscar race covering Anne Bancroft and most of all the feud between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
But thank you for your recent 1983 Shirley MacLaine and this 1965 Julie-Julie-gem of a video. You do important work as you help rediscover great actresses, their work and most of all the discourses around their public images: Julie Christie is a fascinating and very underappreciated actress and star. Due to her political beliefs and ultra independent project choices, she somehow was made invisible by public discourse: They couldn't handle her indepence, non-confirmity and outspoken-ness. I immediately want to see ,Darling', which I try to find for some years but haven't been able to. It's rarely screened and not the movie you find in your average streaming service. Any tip where I can find it?
After finally, seeing *Darling* for the first time, I owe Julie Christie a huge apology.
When I was a teenager, I was drawn to British New Wave films. Of course, I read Doctor Zhivago and just fell in love with the 1965 film. I read the book and watch the 1965 film every winter. Julie Christie is more than just an oil infusion of the 60s on screen, she is an artist among celebrities, like Daniel Day-Lewis. I love how you captured her contributions to film and raised her up. She is worth raising up. I thought she deserved her Oscar immensely for the right film. I am glad she is still with us.
It is also very nice to know that both Julies are still with us now in 2022 and are both now in their 80's. Julie Andrews just turned 87 on Oct. 1st.
I love your videos! Super excited for this video - Miss Christie is a REVELATION in Away From Her. It always breaks your heart when she says, "I think I'm beginning to disappear."
The first time I saw Julie Christie was in Afterglow when it came out. She also played Gertrude in Kenneth Barannaghs Hamlet around this time. I was so impressed by her and I still don't get how she is always able to fly under the radar. I've since seen every movie she's done, many of them more than once. For all the movie stars that are overrated I would put her as one of the most underrated.
Could my love for this channel get any stronger? Such an excellent breakdown of Julie Christie, a brilliant actress modern audiences unfortunately don’t know enough about. Darling remains a mesmerizing portrait of ambition, narcissism, and alienation. Perhaps even more vital to the vibes of this century. A true testament to Christie’s electrifying performance. Keep creating these amazing, informative videos; they always provoke thoughts & brighten moods ❤
The Sound of Music is a Christmas tradition for my sisters and I. We sit down and watch it every year. We have our elementary school music teacher to thank for introducing the musical.
Everytime you drop an episode, is an event! Another fantastic, well researched and informative episode. You knowledge and insight is unsurpassed! When Americans describe the UK and British culture, there us always a tendency to fall back on lazy clichés and inaccuracies. However, you definitely do not fall into this category! So impressed by this meticulous and thoroughly researched episode which does so much justice not only to both Julies but also accurately reflects and contextualise Swinging London and societal changes that were the backdrop to Christie and Andrews' 1966 Oscar campaign. Bravo from this British fan! Xx
Wow! I grew up on Julie Christie films! Fahrenheit 451 and Darling are my favorites. I was lucky my grandma had a copy of Darling on VHS tape for me to discover as a teenager many years ago. I heard she’s Al Pacino’s favorite actress and I get it. May I suggest Karen Black for a future video? She is one of my favorites as well. 💕
Watching this video a few months out but knew I needed to comment at 21:07 because I studied abroad in Austria and the first night we were there they had everyone meet in the biggest classroom (we didn’t know what to expect and thought maybe it was another meeting about rules or classes), they had brought in couches and blankets so everyone could sit, then they brought in cases of a local beer and radlers (lemonade and beer popular in Eastern Europe and sooo good haha) and then they darkened the room and started playing the sound of music on the projector. Everyone cheered, I remember getting goosebumps as the music started to swell. It was an incredible experience and we were VERY engaged. We yelled like that example. It’s one of my favorite memories, a bunch of college students watching the sound of music literally like it was endgame cause we were so excited to be in the country where the story is from!
i watched the sound of music for the first time a few weeks ago and i was used to seeing julie andrews in her perfect little poised characters, those got it all together grown up elegant characters. It was super refreshing to see her in more of a childlike dreamer against all odds character
Really appreciate your "setting" (like a diamond in a ring) of Julie Christie's career, particularly the way you break away to focus on London during the 1960s, which makes this a cultural-historical commentary, as well as a study of an actress. Very thoughtful.
Thanks for a very interesting commentary on these two great iconic stars! I'm 75 and was in my teens in the 1960s and became a professional fashion illustrator in NYC so I remember very well the "Swinging 60s and the London look" and went to Carnaby Street in London in the late 60s, very colorful! I think Dr. Zhivago, a gorgeous film is one of the all time great romantic epic films and I saw it six times in a row when it came out! Christie was also wonderful in other period films like Far From the Madding Crowd that has a musical film score that is a masterpiece imho! Both stars are in their 80s now and Christie was interviewed again recently and she stated that she 'hardly remembers who that young girl was" in the 60s referring to herself!! Thankfully, their youthful images and legendary performances are preserved for the ages!
Oh i can see how much fun you've had with this video) Stellar work as always, I have not even heard of Julie Christie before that, but I will be checking more of her performances now
Julie Christie has been one of my 'major crushes' for years. Years ago whilst working in West London I actually asked her out on a date; it was the nicest most gracious refusal I've ever had.
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I was patiently waiting for mention of Doctor Zhivago and you delivered. ♥
Congrats!
There is a reason I own Darling on DVD. Two words: Julie Christie. I still tell every person I meet and share my movie recommendations to watch Darling. Of course, they never heard of it or Julie, but I will never stop name dropping it in conversation. Away from Her further proves the greatness that is Julie Christie.
I think her anti-heroine character in "McCabe And Mrs. Miller" (no pun intended) is the best Julie Christie role. However, her work in "Shampoo" and "Heaven Can Wait" made me fall madly in love with her. That and her amazing smile. Damn.
Yes, McCabe and Mrs Miller. She's so perfect.
Four fried eggs!
I love love love this so much!! I'll never forget how my life was changed when one of my high school teachers showed me Doctor Zhivago and I just immediately fell in love with her entire artistry and aesthetics!!!
Julie Christie was artist in residence in the drama school of my college here in Melbourne some time ago, and she was absolutely wonderful. Beautiful and very, very inspiring. This is a great video, you’ve captured so much here!
Kudos for pronouncing Yorkshire correctly, believe me as an English person it’s greatly appreciated. It’s the little things, brilliant video as always, Julie Christie is iconic especially the image of her in the black sequin dress and fantastic haircut in Shampoo.
In this video, you made mention of the romanticized history of the films from this period (Dr Zhivago, Sound of Music), and I think that that phenomenon would be a great topic for a future video. Both Sound of Music and Dr Z go to great lengths to disguise the real horrors of their settings. As we know, Hollywood has a long history of this: From Gone with the Wind, South Pacific, and West Side Story... all the way up to this year's The Woman King. Even Cabaret, which is pretty dark for a musical, glosses over the actual Holocaust. I would love to see someone like yourself do a long-form video addressing Hollywood's countless historical errors, why they do it, and what long-term effect it's had on our collective historical ignorance.
I second this suggestion🤙🏻🤙🏻
lol leave The Woman King out of this. I love that movie
Cabaret is supposed to be pre-Holocaust. More specifically, Weimar Republic Germany. Half the point of Cabaret is how flippant, self-centered obliviousness enabled fascism to rise unchecked.
I advocate this essay needs to be done. I always find the "it's just a movie, it's for entertainment" argument kind of flawed. To give safe, not-that-controversial example, it's like the Jurassic World films and scientific accuracy in regards to the dinosaurs themselves. Yes, they don't NEED to be exact, but considering it is the biggest exposure of paleontology in popular media, thereby what most people will subconsciously go off of, and MOST of it is almost purposely outdated, I get why people get mad at it.
@@LilFiremaster Yeah, like Chicago, it doesn't really fit in with the big romanticized epics. It's supposed to be a critique with heavy foreshadowing.
Thank you for another amazing video - would love to see a ‘Second Best Actress’ about Barbara Stanwyck!
This series is so well researched and well presented. You have a real gift (backed up by hard work) at digging into your material and making it accessible to a lay audience.
Everyone has to see Julie Christie in _The Go-between_ (1971).
My mum was a young woman in London in the 60s and she had a more realistic view. It WAS exciting and optimistic, and the new freedoms were soaking into the young population, but the social issues, tired Victorian slums, and half-ruined buildings had not just vanished between 1961 and 1963. England still had many of the same problems they'd had before the rise of the Mod. However, becoming The Place To Be did help London recover from the war, not at least through a tourism boom.
My jaw dropped. Julie Andrews, real life princess, real life embodiment of the picture perfect Disney face? Jeez what were they looking at
No mention of Julie Andrews' 1964 starring title role in "The Americanization of Emily". This definitely carried weight in tandom with her formal 1964 "Mary Poppins" Oscar win. The public and academy voters saw two diverse performances.
Julie Christie held me as a baby, and I've been blessed ever since
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Thanks very much for this. Julie Christie is one of the greatest actors of all time and should be evaluated as such.
I loved Julie Christie in “Fahrenheit 451” where she played two very different characters, brilliantly. I suppose it’s not an especially well known film, but one that I think is very relevant today and worth seeing.
I was grinding my jaw at the comparisons between Julie Andrews and Julie Christie. God, they could just never leave it alone. Women must always be pit against each other. Ugh.
Can we just state for the record that Julie Andrews is absolutely beautiful
I used to review films. Now I just do film analysis on occasion on podcasts .
Your videos feature nice prints for clips and a good , solid amount of research.
These are some of the best film videos on you tube.
It's enjoyable to watch.
I absolutely love all the videos this channel continues to put out. The research and the planing that goes behind each and everyone of theses videos is outstanding! I particularly appreciate this video, as today happens to be Julie Andrews' 87 birthday. Don't know if that was planned but I love it anyways.
My Nana worshipped Julie Andrews. Any movie of her on the TV was treated as an event . And that's why up to this day, after my Nana passed away over a decade ago and I haven't lived on my birth country for years, I can still remember parts of Mary and Sound songs, in my mother language.
Hands down best content on UA-cam 👏👏
This is the Best Actress video I have been waiting a long time for! Thank you for delivering!
YESSSSSSSS a julie andrews AND julie christie video????
something ive noticed about british actresses is how 'cool' they are-they seem to be able to fit in both high and low culture roles simultaneously w/o diminishing their authenticity in either (think of HBC playing the queen mother and marla from fight club). I feel like this is something far far rarer in american actresses at least from the 60s on.
I’m so mad they described Julie Andrew’s looks this way. 1. That’s so rude 2. They’re dead wrong - she’s perfectly perfect in every way 😂
Yes! Finally. Christie, along with Laurence Harvey and Dirk Bogarde were perfectly cast in Darling. The ennui of the upper classes. One of my fave films. Thanks for this considerate video.
Haven't heard of Billy Liar or Darling before, now I plan on watching both.
Another great video from BKR!
Well, I'm 36 so I would no longer be considered younger audience. But I remember seeing her for the first time in McCabe & Mrs. Miller. I thought she was phenomenal. and then I saw her in ׳Away From Her׳ and my thoughts about her haven't changed. I will check out Darling tonight though.
Julie Christie really deserved a Nomination for Heat and Dust (One of Merchant Ivory's Best Films).
Julie Andrews being called "Frumpish"...?
DISGRACEFUL!!!!!!!
That woman wore Dior in The Tamarind Seed and she wore it Beautifully!
Every time you post a video my serotonin levels go through the ROOF
What can I say? Again, so interesting and so well narrated and edited and created. You never disappoint.
PS: The Sound Of Music is basically unknown in Germany. I'm 36 and it was never on TV and not part of our movie or pop culture whatsoever. I've heard of it probably in my early 20s and literally watched it a year ago for the first time.
That's interesting. Why do you think that is? I've heard that Germany's modern education and popular media is really good at teaching the history of Nazis, WWII and the Holocaust. In that context, Sound of Music would probs seem at best juvenile and at worst, like it's undermining the seriousness of what happened.
Not a German, but an Eastern European. The Sound of music is an obscure film here, more like an artefact of the mid-century US pop culture. The first time I watched I was shocked to discover their ideas about WWII. It is a thoroughly bizarre movie.
@@jaffa4242 During the 1950s, two films about the Trapp Family singers were huge successes in Germany and Austria. Maria Von Trapp sold all rights to their story to the German film company. When Mary Martin wanted Rodgers and Hammerstein to write a Broadway musical of it for her, she and her husband bought the rights from the German film company, and Maria Von Trapp did not make a dime from that resale. In turn, Martin & Halliday later sold their rights to 20th Century Fox to make the film adaptation of her Broadway smash. For this clever action, Martin & Halliday earned the present-day equivalent of an unbelievable $100 million. And the two German films were pulled from release, never to be heard of again, basically. Germany and Austria did not take favorably to the film; in fact, one German distributor cut the film to end at the wedding, until Fox executives sued the and won restoration of the cut footage. The Austrians did not want Robert Wise to film the Anschluss and initially denied him permission to use the swastika in public or to film the takeover. They wanted to maintain the fiction that the Austrians had essentially opposed the Anschluss (something like 73% of the electorate had voted for it, in fact). Wise then told them. "Okay. We will use the historical footage that shows the Nazis being warmly welcomed by the population." Worried Salzburg officials then agreed to the filming, upon condition that the troops could be shown marching in but no crowds cheering them. That's what Wise filmed, and the echoing sounds of their footsteps on the empty cobbled streets makes the Anschluss even more eerie and powerful.
I've always been obsessed with both performances (and films) and you deconstructed everything so brilliantly, that I finally understood this special moment in film history and feminism.
And she's a very sweet person to boot. I had the pleasure of making her acquaintance at a Buddhist retreat back in 2000.
THANK YOU for this video!
There is another British actress that took America by storm in the 1960s and 1970s; she won two Oscars which is an impressive achievement for any actress that is not American by birth. Her name is Glenda Jackson. Could you make a video about this versatile actress that has won awards in theatre and in the cinema and is still going strong in her 80s?
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
She is my favorite actress--Christie then Glenda Jackson and of course then Jane Fonda!
And she played King Lear on Broadway not that long ago, good for her!
God I find Julie Christie fascinating, and the explanation of her career trajectory made her taking on the role of Susan in ‘Demon Seed’ make sense. Should you ever want to branch out to Saturn Awards nominees, that’d be a great video 😂
My friend’s grandad swears he once saw Julie Christie in a small UK village in a city called Hull. For years no one believed him until we discovered Julie’s brother, Clive, is a university lecturer in Hull 😂
I'm a big fan of 60s British cinema. There's really nothing out there quite like the British 60s and it was a transformative moment for the world, and its respite and antidote to the horrors of WW2. This dive makes me wonder if there's ever gonna be a look into Rita Tushingham, who's never really been super famous or even an Oscar nominee, but she's just someone I like and who's been in films that I love.
Thanks for your video. Julie Christie has been one of my faves for decades! Always love hearing about her.
Hi I loved your channel for years now and I loved your concept about the cinema of Dolly Parton and I thought it would be a great idea to do more on singers turned actresses such as Diana Ross,Cher,Beyoncé,Queen Latifah or Lady Gaga other I feel like you would be the best authority on discussing the phenomenon of female musicians turned actresses
I much prefer Mary Poppins to The Sound of Music, and much prefer Julie Andrews' performance as Poppins (though her performance as Maria is great too). Her performance as Poppins is pitch perfect; such control and lack of sentiment, very knowing but also very charming and mysterious, and such precision. I feel it is the best thing she ever did. (I'm also a fan of Victor/Victoria.)
I think people who follow her on instagram (where she made this poll) are film buffs (duh) and maybe have similar tastes to Academy. Meaning Sound of Music which in the end is biopic of a real woman and family dealing with Nazi’s, is more prestigious than Disney partially animated film. But I am glad Academy in 60s once actually did reward a performance in a film that wasn’t a typical Oscar fare. Because the Mary Poppins film is amazing and she makes the role.
Victor Victoria is a classic
@@sarasamaletdin4574 The Sound of Music at the end of the day is a movie for everyone, for the children you have the fun music nanny-children dynamics while for the adults you have the romance between Maria and Captain Von Trapp
Welcome back, BKR! I’ve always believed this should’ve been the role that wine Julie Andrews her Oscar
I first watched Darling as a late night feature on Turner Classic Movies when I was a teenager. To be fair, the film flew over my head for the most part, but I was so taken by Julie Christie’s character at the time. It actually fueled my own Anglophile obsession with mid 1960s mod culture. I can easily see how at the time film critics and writers were wrapped up in “Swinging London” youth culture of the era. I’m not one for yearning to be born at any particular time in history (I.e. bemoaning “I was born in the wrong generation!”) but if time travel was just a bit possible, to live amongst the mods and experience Carnaby Street would be glorious!
Gotta say I yelled, "It's Julie Christie!", when she did that cameo in Troy. What a surprise!!!
"The Sound of Zhivago" was the og "Barbenheimer"
Great job on this video. I loved the British movies of the sixties and adored Julie Christie. She deserved the Oscar!
You convinced me, I need to watch darling now.
Elizabeth Hartman in A Patch of Blue would've been such a worthy best actress win.
Yeah however her character was off-putting and pale compared with Shelley's
Anyone else livid listening to those descriptions of Julie Andrews? I was looking round for somebody to punch.
Actually, Julie Christie DID spend the Christmas before the Oscars as a house guest of Julie Andrews, where they sang carols and engaged in other Christmas activities. Cheers.
@Nick Xero Thanks for commenting. Julie Andrews' husband, Tony Walton, designed the sets for the film Christie was working on ("Fahrenheit 451"), so they invited her to spend the holidays with them. This would have been during the time she was dating the artist Don Bessant. The publicity people actually suggested that they repeat doing this during the lead-up to the Oscars, but their agents nixed it because their hectic schedules would have made it impossible. My favourite Julie Christie film? "The Return of the Soldier." Take care.
OMG do I love Julie Christie she has been in a way more sustaining in British culture and movies etc then Julie Andrews, however, one thing that Julie Christie doesn't have and basically no one on the planet that h as acted has is Julie Andrews voice. So massively underrated. Basically no one could have done what Julie Andrews did in the sound of music as fantastically as she did. No one had that kind of musical talent. She wasn't just an actress she was basically one of the best public singers of the 20th century. It's hard to compare with That voice. Somehow we seem to forget she didn't just act her ass off, she sang better than anyone could have in that role.
she also gave a performance (and not only with this one role at that) that remained iconic even after nearly 6 decades and I highly doubt there's a musical performance as charming (and that also happens to be complete) as hers in sound of music, so there's that too
Loved her in Shampoo. Both amazing looks and talent. My all time favorite.
That thing of having actresses look very sixties when they're supposed to be in a different time period was pretty common. Jane Fonda in Cat Ballou, Angie Dickinson in The Last Challenge and even Fay Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde looks a little more "60's" than "30"s.
Yeah, in the 1995 "making of" documentary the costume designer for Doctor Zhivago conceded that they accidentally let the hair be "too '60s". See Geraldine Chaplain's beehive in the film.
I've never heard of Christie before, and really glad to be introduced!
tommorrow is julie christie's birthday so this was right on time. i have great fondness for both of them. thanks.
Thanks for another wonderful video. I laughed out loud when you said "WTF" about Andrew's appearance. Even though your videos are clearly smart and perceptive, they are also really entertaining and funny too.
I’m not very familiar with Julie Christie but I do remember that in the Lord of the Rings bts interviews John Rhys-Davis said he based Gimli’s interaction with Galadriel on the time he met Julie Christie because she had such an effect on him