It is one of the major films of the decade, an underrated masterpiece. Perhaps, like all human beings, we want more, but we have learned over the last thirty-five years to be content with the diamonds that are Julie's leading performances that she gives just once a decade, content to feel that these are a surfeit of riches, our surfeit of riches, so great is their luminescence. Lions Gate Films was so impressed, it purchased the American distribution rights to the film in 2006, then withheld it until the following year to build up momentum for the awards season.Julie Christie's performance in "Away From Her" is superb, and already has garnered her the National Board of Review's Best Actress Award. The parts she did take were primarily driven by her social consciousness, such as appearing in Sally Potter's first feature-length film, The Gold Diggers (1983) which was not a remake of the old Avery Hopwood's old warhorse but a feminist parable made entirely by women who all shared the same pay scale. Christie could never have co-starred with such a camp figure of dubious talent. You are working, intellectually and mentally, and you are having to be with people and socialise all the time. Not wanting to be reduced to a product, she had rebelled and had assumed control of her life and career. [on Malaysia's death penalty for smuggling drugs, as portrayed in her movie. Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of Rosemary (Ramsden), a painter, and Francis St. John "Frank" Christie, a tea planter. Have I made the most of it? Hollywood doesn't give a damn about me, and it is not going to change the way people think. The rules were the same 40 years ago as they are now. Has played the mother of two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors from the "Harry Potter" series. It is a film that is far better remembered now than when it was received in 1967. Schlesinger called on Christie, whom he adored, to play the role of mode Diana Scott when the casting of Shirley MacLaine fell through. Let's be realistic: you want to see people like. I wasn't that person, as if I were a doll from the past. The film company wants you to look fantastic, and borrows clothes and diamonds from designers and jewelers for you to wear. There's an attitude among the successful people of spend and spend, flaunt and flaunt, and don't think of anyone else. [on her looks] I told a friend I wasn't going to a party because I was so shy. For her complex performance, Christie won raves, including the Best Actress Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the British Film Academy. In the '60s, you did not know you were going to get older. It is really undermining. She returned to her native Canada to appear in the low-budget indie The Law of Enclosures (2000), a prescient art film in that director John Greyson offset the drama with a background of a perpetual Gulf War three years before George W. Bush invaded Iraq, touching off the second-longest war in U.S. history. Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom. Some said that her contemporary Vanessa Redgrave would have been a better choice as Bathsheba, but while it is true that Redgrave is a very fine actress, she lacked the sex appeal and star quality of Christie, which makes the story of three men in love with one woman more plausible, as a film.Although no one then knew it, the period 1967-68 represented the high-water mark of Christie's career. I am innumerate. Polley had first read the short story on a flight back from Iceland, where she had made "No Such Thing" with Christie, and as she read, it was Julie whom she pictured as Fiona, the wife of a one-time philandering husband, who has become afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and seeks to save her hubby the pain of looking after her by checking herself into a home.After finishing the screenplay, it took months to get Christie to commit to making the film. As Christie said at the time, she didn't feel she could turn Branagh down as he was a national treasure. She did return to form in Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1971), a fine picture with a script by the great Harold Pinter, and she won another Oscar nomination as the whore-house proprietor in Robert Altman's minor classic McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) that she made with her lover Beatty. Living his life was always far more important than being a star for Beatty, who viewed the movie star profession as a "treadmill leading to more treadmills" and who was wealthy enough after Bonnie and Clyde (1967) to not have to ever work again. Is one of 12 actresses to have won a Best Actress Oscar for playing a character who is pregnant at some point during the film, hers being for. I don't want to be involved in an advertising jamboree. Weitere Ideen zu dmax tv, frauen power, frauenpower. Taking a hiatus from acting, Polley went to Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre to learn to direct, and direct she has, making well-regarded shorts before launching her feature film debut, Away from Her (2006), which was shot and completed in 2006 but held for release until 2007 by its distributor.Polley, who had longed to be a writer since she was a child actress on the set of the quaint family show Avonlea (1990) wrote the screenplay for her adaptation of Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" with only one actress in mind: Julie Christie.