Julie is a 1975 Indian romantic drama film directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and written by Chakrapani. The film stars Lakshmi in the title role (in her Hindi film debut). It also stars Vikram Makandar, Nadira, Rita Bhaduri, Om Prakash, Utpal Dutt and Sridevi, in her first significant Hindi role. The film was a critical and commercial success. Despite the film's success, Lakshmi felt comfortable in choosing to do mostly South Indian movies.[1] Julie was also a musical blockbuster with critics alike and with award-winning music by Rajesh Roshan, which won him the Filmfare Award for the year. It had one of the first English songs in an Indian film, "My Heart is Beating", sung by Preeti Sagar.[2] It is a remake of a Malayalam blockbuster film Chattakari (1974), which also starred Lakshmi as the female lead making her Malayalam and Hindi film debuts in both versions respectively.[3] She would star in yet another remake, the Telugu film Miss Julie Prema Katha (1975). She didn't act in the Kannada remake, Julie, released in 2006, which had Ramya in the title role as Julie and Dino Morea as the leading man.[4] She also declined the role of Julie's mother in the Malayalam remake titled Chattakari (2012), stating that she wanted the audiences to remember her as the young and beautiful Julie; the title role went to Shamna Kasim.[5] Actress Urvashi portrayed the role of Julie in its Tamil remake Oh Maane Maane (1984). The remake and adaptation rights of this film are now owned by Glamour Eyes Films.
The contemporary Washington Evening Star summed up the film as "a movie that leaves audiences more in the debt of the cameraman and Andrew Stone's freewheeling direction than anyone else....Quite irrationally, most of the way, it relates the story of a freckled blond girl who discovers she has married a lethally jealous concert pianist. This chap...is one with whom a girl could be relaxed only on a desert island where she would meet no other male, including a barracuda."[9]
In 2005 film critic Dennis Schwartz, gave Julie a mixed review, writing, "Improbable crime thriller about a woman-in-peril, that is too uneven to be effective; the banal dialogue is the final killer. ... Doris Day, to her credit, gives it her best shot and tries to take it seriously even when the melodrama moves way past the point of just being ridiculous. Later disaster movies stole some of those airplane landing scenes."[11]
There were so many initial challenges from figuring out how much we would need to educate our audience to how we could encourage our participants to talk openly and honestly about their experience as intersex people without traumatizing them in the process. Luckily, we found these three incredible activists who both had amazing stories and a great deal of inner strength. All of them had been talking about their bodies and experiences before we started filming, so this film was not the first time they opened up about their lives. I think my biggest challenge was to make sure that the film was a feel-good movie. This subject matter can be tough, even sad, at points, but it was my job to turn it into a funny, fun, loving viewing experience.
As filmmakers, we had to make sure audiences understood the basics of the subject. It's tough to make a film where the central subject matter is one for which many of the viewers have no frame of reference. So we made a decision to tell people right at the front of the movie what intersex means and allow the film to educate people.
James Berardinelli wrote for ReelViews, "Calling a movie a 'fairy tale' and having Julie Andrews provide 'Once Upon a Time...' bookend narration are not sufficient reasons to abandon things like intelligent plotting and compelling character development."
Summary: In the superhero movie "Aquaman," Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Mera (Amber Heard) are the only ones capable of saving Atlantis from Aquaman's half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson).
Andrews' legendary career includes the stage, movies, TV, concerts, and recordings. She's a dame commander of the British Empire and has six Golden Globes, three Grammys, two Emmys, an Oscar, and a Kennedy Center honor.
Parents need to know that Miss Julie is an adaptation of a play by August Strindberg; as with many play-based movies, there's far more talk than action. The title character (Jessica Chastain) is the spoiled daughter of a nobleman in 1880s Ireland who's become infatuated with a cultured servant (Colin Farrell). She orders him around while flirting and making plenty of suggestive demands, but they know that any kind of relationship is doomed. This period piece has little swearing or actual sex (just lots of sexual tension and an undercurrent of thwarted desire), but the wine flows freely, and there are some intense arguments. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
The ferocity of Chastain's performance lifts Miss Julie somewhat -- as do, to a slightly lesser extent, the turns by Farrell and co-star Samantha Morton. But let's be honest: There's only so much an actor can do. Bound by a script and staging that give the movie a certain claustrophobia that stands up much better on stage than in celluloid, this overwrought drama doesn't quite take flight.
In the week ending on Aug. 9 -- the movie's opening was Aug. 7 -- 11,000 copies of \"Mastering\" were sold while sales for \"My Life in France\", which was co-written with Alex Prud'Homme, totaled 25,000, according to data released this morning by Nielsen BookScan. \"My Life\" now ranks at No. 5 on BookScan's list of top ten selling adult nonfiction books.
CF: Yeah. Because there's the scene where Julia Child bones a duck, and the scene where Julie Powell bones a duck, and then we actually had to have the finished product for that outdoor scene at the end of the movie....It wound up being just a LOT of duck.
Julie Ray has 20 years of experience designing scenery for theatre, film and television. She has designed scenery for feature films including Love & Other Drugs, Abduction, & 13 Days. Television credits include X-Files, Babylon 5, Crusade and various television movies. For live theatre, Julie has designed for PICT Theatre, Quantum Theatre, and Prime Stage in Pittsburgh. She has also designed for museums, theme parks, churches, and retail establishments.
I first saw the movie The Sound of Music as a young child, probably in the late 1960s. I liked the singing, and Maria was so pretty and kind! As I grew older, more aware of world history, and saturated by viewing the movie at least once yearly, I was struck and annoyed by the somewhat sanitized story of the von Trapp family it told, as well as the bad 1960s hairdos and costumes. "It's not historically accurate!" I'd protest, a small archivist in the making. In the early 1970s I saw Maria von Trapp herself on Dinah Shore's television show, and boy, was she not like the Julie Andrews version of Maria! She didn't look like Julie, and she came across as a true force of nature. In thinking about the fictionalized movie version of Maria von Trapp as compared to this very real Maria von Trapp, I came to realize that the story of the von Trapp family was probably something closer to human, and therefore much more interesting, than the movie led me to believe.
The von Trapps never saw much of the huge profits The Sound of Music made. Maria sold the film rights to German producers and inadvertently signed away her rights in the process. The resulting films, Die Trapp-Familie (1956), and a sequel, Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958), were quite successful. The American rights were bought from the German producers. The family had very little input in either the play or the movie The Sound of Music. As a courtesy, the producers of the play listened to some of Maria's suggestions, but no substantive contributions were accepted.
How did the von Trapps feel about The Sound of Music? While Maria was grateful that there wasn't any extreme revision of the story she wrote in The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, and that she herself was represented fairly accurately (although Mary Martin and Julie Andrews "were too gentle-like girls out of Bryn Mawr," she told the Washington Post in 1978), she wasn't pleased with the portrayal of her husband. The children's reactions were variations on a theme: irritation about being represented as people who only sang lightweight music, the simplification of the story, and the alterations to Georg von Trapp's personality. As Johannes von Trapp said in a 1998 New York Times interview, "it's not what my family was about. . . . [We were] about good taste, culture, all these wonderful upper-class standards that people make fun of in movies like 'Titanic.' We're about environmental sensitivity, artistic sensitivity. 'Sound of Music' simplifies everything. I think perhaps reality is at the same time less glamorous but more interesting than the myth."
Her most recent film role was in 2012, and since then appears to have stepped away from acting. If this is the case, she's still left behind an impressive legacy, with half a century's worth of roles in numerous - and varied - movies. Some of the best of these are ranked below, beginning with the good and ending with some of the classics Christie featured in during her acting career.
Still, if a well-worn premise ain't broke, don't fix it, and that ensures Afterglow works pretty well. Julie Christie received her third of four Oscar nominations for her role in this movie, with co-star Nick Nolte also putting in solid work, and the two convincingly play the couple at the movie's center well.
It feels a little strange ranking Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as one of Julie Christie's best movies. While it is very good (some might even say the best of the Harry Potter movies), she's really only in here very briefly, seemingly because this movie series had a need to cast every single well-known British actor in some sort of role, large or small.
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