Julie Andrews and Julie Christie: Opposite Personas Vying for Best Actress | 1966
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In this video I talk about Julie Christie's Oscar win for Darling: how she became a fashion icon, how she was compared to Julie Andrews, and the amazing films of her filmography.
Check out some of her films:
McCabe and Mrs. Miller: • McCabe & Mrs. Miller /...
Far From the Madding Crowd: • Far From the Madding C...
Afterglow: • Afterglow (Full Movie)...
Billy Liar and Darling are currently streaming on the Criterion Channel
Spanish subtitles by Angélica Blanco
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I thought the app was pretty cool, so I commented with the link like you said to in the video and the comment got deleted 😕
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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LITERALLY SAME
when I tell you I screamed at the thumbnail and title
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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!
@@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!
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
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 😍
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
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.
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.
I agree with you about the writers criticizing Julie Andrews looks. She was so beautiful, what were they thinking?
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?
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
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.
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.
Everyone has to see Julie Christie in _The Go-between_ (1971).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
After finally, seeing *Darling* for the first time, I owe Julie Christie a huge apology.
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.
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!
gush much? calm thyself, sweetie
Julie Christie held me as a baby, and I've been blessed ever since
To this day, I've seen The Sounds of Music more times (8) than any other film I've rewatched throughout the pandemic. It was, however, Julie Christie's role in Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 that opened up an entire world of international cinema for me at a young age.
Oh! Fahrenheit 451! Please send the original version back!
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. 💕
I must have accidentally dreamwalked in from a different universe, because I could have sworn that Christie had never won an Oscar. Like, I thought she was one of the people who'd been nominated the most without having won.
I thought the same lmao I remember looking her up when I watched Shampoo a few years ago and I don’t remember reading that she had an Oscar or what she won for 👋 strangest thing to have Mandela effect on
People often say "She's criminally underrated" and yet she wasn't/isn't. She just doesn't do loads of interviews.
@@scattygirl1 except it is possible to be underrated and well-awarded, it just depends on who one feels is doing the underrating. I would argue Julie belongs in both groups.
@@jacobskinner3522 When I think critical/awards darling and still underrated I always think of Patricia Arquette!
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'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 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
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!
This is another awesomely well-made video; Julie C is one of my absolute fave actors and I've been obsessed with 'Darling' for years. The 60s really were a new era for female Brit actors, and in some ways, Julie C opened the door for subsequent wins for Maggie Smith and Glenda Jackson (also in British indie films). Hope you take a look at Glenda Jackson in one of your vids one day. :)
omg, THIS! I love British New Wave cinema, and although JC is a wonderful actress, I'd really love more about all of these ladies. It's amazing to think of how films like Taste of Honey or Look Back in Anger enraged the critics, who called them "tasteless" because they didn't show refined middle-class or upper-class people.
Maggie Smith had been in films before Christie and, in fact, was a supporting actress Oscar nominee that very same evening for OTHELLO. Oh, and she and Christie were both in YOUNG CASSIDY, playing opposing love interests for Rod Taylor, with whom Smith's character was also in love in THE V.I.P.S. (1963). Oh, and Andrews and Smith had been friends going back to 1956 when they were both young British women making a sensation on Broadway.
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!
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.
No one makes more enjoyable videos about things I really never think about than you do. Yours is a real skill.
I don't even remember what I voted for lol. Excited for this video!!!
I have never clicked so quickly - THANK YOU for giving my Julies the attention they need, especially Julie Christie!
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.
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!
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’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 😂
Can we just state for the record that Julie Andrews is absolutely beautiful
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!
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.
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.
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.
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."
My jaw dropped. Julie Andrews, real life princess, real life embodiment of the picture perfect Disney face? Jeez what were they looking at
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
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.
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.
Gotta say I yelled, "It's Julie Christie!", when she did that cameo in Troy. What a surprise!!!
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!
Thanks for your video. Julie Christie has been one of my faves for decades! Always love hearing about her.
This is the Best Actress video I have been waiting a long time for! Thank you for delivering!
Everytime I see a notification about a new video by you I get sooooo happy. Every single second is worth it!
And I love Julie. And Julie.
I love your videos. With most CZcams videos I have them on as background while I do something. Your videos however actually make me watch them. I save them up for those magical moments when I won't be interrupted. You always make my day and teach me something. Thank you so much for doing these.
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 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!!!
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.
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
This took a miraculous research. Always digging deep, deep, and often flying us with thoughts.
Thank you!
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.
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 ❤
I was patiently waiting for mention of Doctor Zhivago and you delivered. ♥
Congrats!
Every time you post a video my serotonin levels go through the ROOF
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
Your clips are so addictive... Thank you for the Big effort of rememoring some of the biggest times in cinema. Hugs from buenos aires!
Thank you for another amazing video - would love to see a ‘Second Best Actress’ about Barbara Stanwyck!
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
I love how much I learn or connect when I watch these videos. 🥰
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
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.
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?
Haven't heard of Billy Liar or Darling before, now I plan on watching both.
Another great video from BKR!
Andrews was also the star of 1966's highest grossing film, Hawaii. No actress has ever done a "three-peat", before or since. Still, Christie was the one who piqued our enduring curiosity, and she is the Julie we will all best remember.
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.
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.
I have to say BKR/Izzie that I adore what your video essays especially the ones that address class issues and gives voice to the unglamorous working class. I feel that the voice of working class America has been suppressed and manipulated especially in comparison to the deification of the rich American upper class that pervaded the cinema of America from 1980s-2010s. The fact that you give such dignified, respectful and above all truly an in depth and well researched voice to economic policies, economic issues and the working class is truly splendid. The working class and our issues have been ignored for way to long the last 4 decades and I’m glad you’re also showing the history of various labour movements through your essays too! All the while you’re exploring these issues and their history through the medium of the history classic cinema.
Issie, you’re doing goddess’ work! 🤩
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.
Welcome back, BKR! I’ve always believed this should’ve been the role that wine Julie Andrews her Oscar
These videos are rare, but always top-notch!
1965 was THE year of Julie Christie. Of course, she won that year. Both of her movies were big hits and garnered a lot of Oscars, including BOTH costume design awards!
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.
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.
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.
This channel, this content, this scripting and narration is simply as good as it gets 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
You constantly raise the bar, another great video, analyzing these two marvelous stars.
Loved her in Shampoo. Both amazing looks and talent. My all time favorite.
it’s a great day for some new bkr content!! and dueling julies! 🌂
My grandparents took me to see The Sound of Music when I was 5. It was in a big theater, the first time I'd been to the movies (and yes, it was in 1966).
I was thrilled to see Julie Christie as Gertrude in Branagh's Hamlet
just want to say thank you for all your hard work and for educating us on hollywood history. i appreciate it.
Both Julie's were phenoms.There is no question. I have never underestimated Julie Christie who is an icon of creative force and a proponent of modernity and human psychology in film.
binging all your videos ~
So happy I found this channel.
The research and editing of your videos makes them some of my favorites on CZcams.
Hands down best content on CZcams 👏👏
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.
Wow! So glad I found your channel! And so much great content to binge… I love film and now I also have some films to watch. What abundance!