Julie Christie

Streaming: the best films about artificial intelligence and robots

A century of sci-fi films that chart our changing attitudes to AI – from Fritz Lang to Finch

Guy Lodge

06, Nov, 2021 @8:00 AM

I've never seen ... Doctor Zhivago

Would David Lean’s epic Russian-revolution romance stir my heart or leave me stone-cold? Well, all the balalaikas set my teeth on edge from the start

Anne Billson

06, May, 2020 @9:00 AM

Don't Look Now review – Roeg's scary movie can still make you jump

From its red stalker to its eerie strangers, this suspenseful classic set a template for horror – but its sexual intimacy adds a dramatic counterpoint few films can match

Peter Bradshaw

05, Jul, 2019 @10:00 AM

Heat and Dust review – a triumph of charm, complexity and hidden depths

This flawed Merchant Ivory gem picks apart imperial and sexual politics to reveal a story of forbidden love – but of what kind?

Peter Bradshaw

08, Mar, 2019 @9:00 AM

British cultural figures urge BBC to boycott Eurovision in Israel

Vivienne Westwood, Mike Leigh and Julie Christie are among those calling for coverage to be cancelled, citing human rights violations

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

29, Jan, 2019 @4:59 PM

Sex factor: Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci's transgressive legacy

Roeg and Bertolucci were among the first directors to use explicit eroticism to bring psychological depth to their films – a sensibility cast in a new light by #MeToo

Ryan Gilbey

26, Nov, 2018 @5:34 PM

What links Rachel Weisz, Julie Christie, Tippi Hedren and Joan Fontaine? The Weekend quiz

From an impact crater to a goblin, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz

Thomas Eaton

01, Jul, 2017 @6:00 AM

Frozen in time: Julie Christie in the supermarket queue, June 1965

In the year the actor’s celebrity went stratospheric, Julie Christie could be found looking bored at the checkout

Alex Clark

17, Apr, 2016 @7:00 AM

Donald Sutherland on Don't Look Now remake: 'Don't embarrass yourselves by making it'

Promoting Hunger Games, actor says producers of proposed remake of 1972 horror are ‘just people wanting profit’ who ‘should be ashamed of themselves’

Ben Child

17, Nov, 2015 @5:19 PM

Loved but not lost: David Lean’s Brief Encounter and Dr Zhivago

Brief Encounter was laughed at by audiences when first released, and Dr Zhivago was scorned by critics. Now, argues Michael Newton, we can appreciate them as two of the greatest love stories committed to film

Michael Newton

13, Nov, 2015 @1:00 PM

My highlight: The Go-Between by Jenny Turner

Less arty than the 1971 film, the new BBC version lets the tensions within LP Hartley’s novel emerge: land, money, war and revolution as well as sex

Jenny Turner

19, Sep, 2015 @10:00 AM

Chevron hits out at British documentary on oil pollution in Ecuador

Company upset over short film that uses Pablo Neruda’s famous poem on how US corporations treated Latin American countries as empty ‘banana republics’

John Vidal

17, Jun, 2015 @3:21 PM