Julie Christie #9 and #10

Shampoo - Hal Ashby, 1975

Warren Beatty is very cool, women are very stupid.

That's about it.

Shampoo: 5.0/10
Julie Christie in Shampoo: 6.0/10

And now, Demon Seed. I read up on the premise of this film. Very intriguing, and it did not disappoint. i'm on the verge of napping so I'll wrap this marathon up quickly.

Julie Christie's husband builds a supercomputer born with an existential crisis named Proteus IV , which kidnaps Christie in her own home while she is alone, commences to psychologically abuse her and plans on impregnating her.

It's themes of immortality, a man's need to procreate no matter how, and how far the human race will go to complete silly goals can be over obvious, but are effective none the less. Things that happen in this film make little to no sense, but it still manages to work quite successfully.

And Julie. The last Julie performance of the program is among her best. Locked away by herself for the vast majority of the run-time, she's fantastic acting against a creepy offscreen voice. Her fear is palpable, and the slow transition from mania to almost a Stockholm Syndrome state is excellently handled.


Demon Seed: 8.6/10
Julie Christie in Demon Seed: 8.5/10


And now we rank her performances in order from the best.

1. The Go-Between
2. Darling
3. Demon Seed
4. Petulia
5. Billy Liar
6. Far From the Madding Crowd
7. The Fast Lady
8. Shampoo
9. Young Cassidy
10. In Search of Gregory

So her performance average in this marathon of Christie performances is 7.0. It's amazing how heavily that Gregory movie affects her average.



So today's TCM star is Ingrid Bergman, another actress I love. I decided to record a few of the films, nothing like with Christie. On the plate will be Roberto Rossellini's Stromboli, Hitchcock's Spellbound, famous noir Gaslight, Europa '51, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

These will roll out much slower, as I take time to actually do other things. Hopefully Cox On Demand will start working again.