Julie Christie really had the magic back at the height of her fame and success.

She makes me go misty!

Love her.

Same person 50 years later.

Still absolutely gorgeous. She was haunting in Away From Me. Heartbreaking.

She can't even comb her hair!

Actually she looks very ordinary now. Back then, she really was magic. But still terrific in Away from Her

I love Julie Christie, virtually the quintessential star of the late 60’s. But also a wonderful actress. I wish I’d seen her onstage on Broadway in 1964, opposite Diana Rigg, in the RSC production of “The Comedy of Errors,” which toured the U.S. in 1964. Or in “Uncle Vanya, directed by Mike Nichols, in 1973.

Everything I’ve seen her in she has done good work. And she still, even at the age of 80, has that same elusive allure she always had.

But my favorite memory of her is also my first, when I saw “Billy Liar” (1963), in which the camera watches her stroll along the streets of Bradford, in Yorkshire, a lovely free spirit.

A marvelous presence.

She’s adorable in the OP clip.

You can see she's being totally honest. None of her responses are for effect...and I like her aside with John Schlessinger.

[quote]She can't even comb her hair!

She was quite famous for being scruffy - a lot of people found her disappointing in real lfe. She was also very short 5'2"

I love her and her gay bestie Roland Curram together in DARLING (65).

[quote]I love her and her gay bestie Roland Curram together in DARLING (65).

Oh, MAAAL!

R7 YES, Billy Liar! She was beautiful and so understanding of Billy. I have it on DVD and watch it every now and then. Today is gonna be one of those days. Thanks for reminding me.

[quote] I love her and her gay bestie Roland Curram together in DARLING (65).

It must have been a first for the lead character in a major film have a gay best friend who was out about being gay.

I love Billy Liar too.

I was such a nerd I went once and found the locations in Bradford. Billy's house and a few other places.

Yes, I'm not sure she was even THAT great of an actress but she absolutely had *it*. In Shampoo especially, you can't take your eyes off her, even with Goldie Hawn sharing the screen.

Those are some big ass lips.

Why do all the Russians in Dr. Zhivago speak with British accents?

She and Jean Shrimpton, the look of the 60s.

Julie Christie was so stunning that she even survived the terrible hairstyles of the 1970s. At the height of her beauty in the sixties, I consider her one of the most beautiful women to grace the screen.

Like Michelle Pfeiffer, her beauty unfairly overshadowed her considerable talent as an actor.

Little old Grandma.

Obviously a lifetime achievement award from the old guard. They did that back in the old days. Sixties.

Sniff

Love her!

[quote]she even survived the terrible hairstyles of the 1970s.

I hated that hugely popular movie she did with Warren Beatty. It seemed like a vanity project for HIM, on reflection.

R23, that’s the one I thought of first! Her perm in Heaven Can Wait wasn’t the worst of the seventies, but it was close.

No, mine was.

I thought this was interesting.

[quote]I was such a nerd I went once and found the locations in Bradford. Billy's house and a few other places.

R15 You lived my dream! When I saw the movie I wanted to walk in Billy's footsteps - visit the dancehall, the pubs, his house, the playground, etc.

She’s a goddess, and she should have won a second Oscar for Afterglow.

There was such a good documentary made about the British films of the 60s called "Hollywood UK" and cleverly they took people to the old locations to talk about their films.

The Billy Liar section starts at 34:40

I'll never forgive Marion Cotillard for stealing Christie's Oscar in 2007, for fucking lip-syncing to Edith Piaf's tracks. Some people think Christie's somewhat awkward speeches during the awards season cost her the victory.

R29 Thank you! I always loved that last shot of Julie Christie on the train leaving for London, knowing (I don't want to give away the ending so will leave it there). Also, that doc's portion of Richard Harris in This Sporting Life...I forgot how gorgeous he was as a young man.

Interesting clip; she's being totally natural and thus not the otherworldly beauty we know from film (but still gorgeous).

r23 I've never seen an actor more visibly bored in a film than Julie in Heaven Can Wait. I love that during a climatic scene towards the end, she's literally looking at her nails.

Agree, R30.

Ive mentioned this here before, but I used to dress up in my Mother’s wigs, falls, and wiglets (simultaneously!!) and pulled her large fake fur around my neck just like R26’s pic of Julie Christie as Lara.

R35: That's Julia Roberts as Julie Christie as Lara, courtesy of makeup talent Kevyn Aucoin.

Julia Roberts is no Julie Christie.

[quote]Ive mentioned this here before, but I used to dress up in my Mother’s wigs, falls, and wiglets (simultaneously!!) and pulled her large fake fur around my neck

You can't mention it too often, as far as I'm concerned.

r18 Don't forget their California tans!

And apparently an authentic free spirit. Warren Beatty talked of being in her house once and finding a check made out to her for something like 40k wedged deep between two couch cushions. She had no clue it was there.

London 1969 - looking a mess.

I always get Julie Christie mixed up with Julie Harris. Love them both, but don't know why I cant keep them straight

Yeah, I don't either, R42, since they looked (and were) nothing alike.

Bitch 41, please.

That should have been bitch R41.

I think you can cut hollywood into old & new with her Oscar win. The year before Julie Andrews won for Mary Poppins. Maybe I’m wrong.

Petulia was my introduction to the rain lamp.

R10 She had the scruffy, big hair look to emulate that sex-kitten Brigitte Bardot.

The Style Editor of 'Harpers & Queen', Peter York, who also published 'The Sloane Ranger Handbook' (starring Princess Di) said Christie's tousled hair was the epitome of 'The Just-Raped Look'.

Christie epitomised the Free Sex attitude of the 1960s Pill Generation. She said she wanted to 'suck Beatty's cock' on screen.

She and Tom Courtenay were great in "Billy Liar". They were reunited two years later in "Doctor Zhivago", and I thought he was excellent, but her Lara was underwhelming.

^ Lara was an adulteress and Rod Steiger called her a slut.

And, of course, she played a Harvey-Weinstein-type in 'Darling'. And she got an Oscar for that.

She’s aged wonderfully well.

There's a pretty photo of her on Google as a school girl.

But she fitted best in the 60s when movie stars had lots and lots of hair on top of her head and those dangling tendrils.