trolley freak

3Nov11

Julie Christie is an icon of the 60's, one of the most beautiful women of my lifetime and a terrific actress. Making her mark in Schlesinger's Billy Liar (why oh why didn't Tom Courtenay get on the train to London with her at the end?!), the same director cast her to Oscar-winning glory in Darling just two years later. In her best decade she also gave radiant performances in Doctor Zhivago, Far From The Madding Crowd and the under-appreciated Petulia. In the 70's she hooked up with Warren Beatty (lucky, lucky, man...) and made the brilliant McCabe & Mrs. Miller. Other stand-out performances in the 70's came in The Go-Between and Don't Look Now, one of the best films of the decade. Her career slowed down in the 80's but she still found time to appear in Heat And Dust, a personal favourite of mine. Still going strong, Julie Christie is a National Treasure...