Julie Christie Archives

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 25, 2003Book-Burning Dystopia/Ray Bradbury Adaptation

Francois Truffaut adapts Ray Bradbury's novel about a dystopian future where books are burned. Truffaut finds different things in the story than Bradbury did but creates a beautiful film

Director: Francois Truffaut

Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, …

Category: Science Fiction

25 January 20031 February 2026 by Roog

Nicolas Roeg's masterwork. Ostensibly a film about grief and precognition, this is a film that exists as a series of taunting visual clues that constantly map over onto each other with a hidden geometry

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Massimo Serato

Category: Horror

27 March 200121 February 2026 by Roog

Demon Seed (1977)

Rating: ★

Feb 15, 2000Computer Wants to Have Sex

Adaptation of an early Dean R. Koontz novel about an A.I who imprisons a woman in her own home with the intention of impregnating her. A variant on Rosemary’s Baby conducted far more tastefully than you might think

Director: Donald Cammell

Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Robert Vaughn, Gerrit Graham

Category: Science Fiction

15 February 200017 January 2026 by Roog

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

Rating: ★★½

Jan 18, 2001Afterlife Mixup

Warren Beatty co-directs/stars in a remake of the afterlife film Here Comes Mr Jordan. Amiably lightweight but this was over-praised at the time, inexplicably receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture

Director: Buck Henry, Warren Beatty

Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, …

Category: Fantasy

18 January 200130 October 2025 by Roog

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

Rating: ★½

Jan 4, 2003Decayed Future

Adaptation of a Doris Lessing novel set in a collapsing future England. Nicely portrayed but crytpically surreal touches end up baffling

Director: David Gladwell

Actors: Julie Christie, Leonie Mellinger, Christopher Guard

Category: Science Fiction

4 January 20037 January 2025 by Roog

Hamlet (1996)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 14, 2004Shakespeare Adaptation/Ghosts and Madness

Kenneth Branagh emerged as an director with his dynamic cinematic Shakespeare adaptations. In this lavish production, he attempts no less than a definitive version of what is regarded as Shakespeare's greatest play

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers, …

Category: Fantasy

14 August 200424 March 2026 by Roog

DragonHeart (1996)

Rating: ★★★

May 28, 2000Rogue and Dragon

This places an amusing spin on the standard dragon fantasy, having the dragon and its would-be slayer team up to fool the peasantry out of money. The Sean Connery-voiced dragon looks like a big CGI cartoon

Director: Rob Cohen

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, …

Category: Fantasy

28 May 200014 October 2025 by Roog

Finding Neverland (2004)

Rating: ★★

Jan 16, 2005Peter Pan's Creator Biopic

A biopic about J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. The film received much acclaim at awards season but in reality is a simplistic work that rewrites J.M. Barrie's biography in favour of a fictional story about what happened

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, …

Category: Fantasy

16 January 20051 February 2026 by Roog

Red Riding Hood (2011)

Rating: ★★★½

Mar 13, 2011Adult Fairytale

Catherine Hardwcke's adapts the fairytale as a dark adult fantasy where there has been the clear intention to pitch it to Twilight audiences but the results are surprisingly good

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Shiloh Fernandez, Billy Burke, …

Category: Fantasy

13 March 201131 July 2021 by Roog