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  Julia (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Julia is a 1977 dramatic film based on playwright Lillian Hellman's novel Pentimento, which tells the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend Julia, who worked as an anti-fascist in the years prior to World War II.
The movie was adapted by Alvin Sargent from the novel.
While Julia (Redgrave) attended the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian Hellman suffers through revisions of her play with mentor and sometimes lover Dashiell Hammett at a New England beachhouse.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_(movie)   (321 words)

  
 Being Julia movie review, In Film Australia
Annette Bening is charmingly conniving and softly radiant as a sardonic actor with an acid tongue in Being Julia, a sharp comedy/drama based in around the theatre scene in London in the 1930's.
Instead of a has been however Julia is at the peak of her career - still young enough to turn heads and old enough to be considered as something of a legend.
Being Julia is a sharp and amusing film littered with witty little giggles and crisp snippets of dialogue.
www.infilm.com.au /reviews/beingjulia.htm   (470 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Julia (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Julia is a 1977 dramatic film based on playwright Lillian Hellman's Pentimento, which tells the story of her relationship with her lifelong friend Julia, who worked as an anti-fascist in the years prior to World War II.
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While Julia (Redgrave) attended the University in Vienna, studying with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, Lillian Hellman (Fonda) suffers through revisions of her play with mentor and sometimes lover Dashiell Hammett (Robards) at a New England beachhouse.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Julia-(movie)   (1389 words)

  
 JoBlo reviews the movie "Erin Brockovich"- Comments1
Julia was in perfect character from the first frame of the movie.
Reportedly, Julia earned $20 million for this movie, it was a fine acting job indeed, when she appeared to be overwhelmed by a $2 million check.
This movie is less about the legal battle, and more about the people whom Roberts is helping, and how she goes from eating canned fruit and circling want ads to being happy and successful.
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 Being Julia movie review
In spite of all the fame and undoubted talents, Julia is afraid that she is losing her looks and charm and finds it difficult to maintain the facade.
Aging Julia's boredom is lifted by spending time with Tom and they embark on a full out affair and are madly in love.
Now Julia feeling dejected, comes up with a marvelous plan to take revenge on everyone involved - the men in her life; her lover, her husband and the aspiring actress who beds both of them.
www.webindia123.com /movie/international/reviews/beingjulia/index.htm   (568 words)

  
 Being Julia Movie Review - Being Julia Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
Annette Bening is downright giddy in "Being Julia," and I'm not sure if it's because she left Warren at home with the kids or because she's sinking her teeth into the kind of role that comes around once in a career.
The title of "Being Julia" presupposes that there's only one Julia Lambert, but the onscreen evidence suggests there are as many as there are breaths in a day.
Julia flits, flirts, gives in to passion, draws aside to panic, puts on the mask again, schemes, droops, and triumphs, and by the final scenes role and performance are reflecting each other in an infinite hall of mirrors.
www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=6861   (605 words)

  
 Being Julia Movie Review at Hollywood Video
Julia Lambert (Bening) is a forty-something stage actress, more a star than a talent, but for the purposes of the film, she is the be-all and end-all of London's West End in 1938.
The melodramatic Julia would claim love regardless of her feelings for the boy, but in Bening's hands, we see that this enigmatic woman has found the ability to adore someone other than herself.
Above all, though, Julia is still both an actress and an enigma, so when Tom breaks her heart, she concocts perhaps the most glorious revenge ever seen, one that is both unique and inevitable.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=139441   (1615 words)

  
 Being Julia Movie Review
Being Julia might just as well been titled Bening Julia, because not once in her career has Annette starred in a movie that seemed anywhere near as tailor made for her.
Being Julia is set in Depression era London and Julia Lambert is the most famous stage actress of her generation.
Overall, Being Julia is nothing more substantial than a diverting little lark, but Bening proves herself worthy of her award nominations and single-handedly makes the film worth watching.
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 Closer Movie Review (Julia Roberts) Empire Movies
Despite the movie's rather scathing look at love (if you could even call it that) and relationships, Closer does a great job of grabbing your attention right from the beginning of the movie and keeping you more or less glued to the screen right till the end.
All four actors/actresses in the movie are quite good in their respective roles, perhaps the most challenging roles of their careers.
It's an emotional movie but not the type of emotion we are used to seeing and feeling and that's what makes Closer a movie that is worth checking out.
www.empiremovies.com /reviews/reviews.php?id=1421   (596 words)

  
 Being Julia Review by Dustin Rowles
Yet, Julia, every bit the Norma Desmond diva, has grown weary of not only her stardom, but her professional marriage, a “modern” coupling with her impresario husband, Michael (Jeremy Irons).
Enter wet-behind-the-ears American, Tom Fennel (Shaun Evans), who is star struck with Julia; flattered by the attention and boldness of a man half her age, Julia takes a quick liking to Tom, embarking on a torrid love affair that reinvigorates her enthusiasm for acting.
Expectedly, however, the ardor that Julia and Tom share fades, after she learns of his real agenda, and about the ambitions of another actress, (Lucy Punch), with whom Tom is also sleeping.
www.pajiba.com /being-julia.htm   (334 words)

  
 Being Julia movie reviews
Kudos and bouquets to all but most especially to Bening for a delectably meaty job of saucing up the drama and for an inimitable screen presence that can only be faulted for not showing up as often on our screens as her talent would justify, if not demand.
''Being Julia,'' the new backstage romance from Istvan Szabo, is a flimsy frame surrounding a brightly colored performance by Annette Bening, whose quick, high-spirited charm is on marvelous display.
In a business such as Julia's, the world can be a stage upon which life becomes an act.
www.mooviees.com /7125/reviews   (521 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | | Film | Erin go braless | 2000-03-16
This is a Julia Roberts Movie about only one thing: being a Julia Roberts Movie.
It's as though the entirety of her career has built to this single film, this glamorously "unglamorous" role in a based-on-a-true-story movie about one down-on-her-luck, self-educated woman's hard-fought triumph over adversity and, yes, evil (as always, in the shape of a ruthless utilities company bent on destroying the lives of hundreds of small-town innocents).
Replace Julia Roberts with co-star Marg Helgenberger, and you've got what amounts to made-for-Lifetime uplift: out-of-work, twice-divorced single mother takes on The Man and knocks Him on His ass to the tune of $333 million.
dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-03-16/film4.html   (1542 words)

  
 SPLICEDwire | "Being Julia" movie review (2004) "Being Julia" review, István Szabó, Annette Bening, ...
Being Julia is a delicious tale of amorous folly and revenge set in the world of the London stage in the late 1930's.
Tom sweeps Julia off her feet, and the aging celebrity embarks on an illicit affair which, if discovered, would create a social scandal that could ruin her already-waning career and destroy her rocky marriage.
This revelation leads Julia to plot an elaborate revenge to satisfy her wounded pride and get back some of the dignity that has been gradually eroded by the various compromises she has been forced to make.
www.splicedwire.com /04reviews/beingjulia.html   (342 words)

  
 Being Julia Movie Review
Annette Bening (the titular Julia) runs the emotional gamut from spoiled diva, intoxicated lover, venegeful witch, loving mom, humbled reject, glorious star, and everything in-between, and you really feel it, you really believe everything she feels.
The only creature who can surmount Julia's glitter is her late acting teacher, played as a very present memory or ghost by Michael Gambon.
He provides us with the necessary internal world of Julia as well as justifying (sort of) her choices.
www.killermovies.com /b/beingjulia/reviews/m9e.html   (539 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - News - Movie File: Julia Stiles, Matt Damon, 50 Cent, The Rock, Rob Schneider & More
Julia Stiles and Liev Schreiber are in negotiations to star in "The Omen," a remake of the 1976 horror classic.
But something in the movie version of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is scary enough to have earned the movie the first PG-13 in the Potter series.
"We're talking about doing a movie that's a group of different actors coming together [for] an outrageous comedy [called] 'Hard R.' I don't know exactly what it is yet," Schneider said of the film, which is named for movies that straddle the controversial line between R and NC-17.
www.mtv.com /movies/news/articles/1507381/08102005/story.jhtml   (1190 words)

  
 Being Julia London Movie Review
Clearly, the combination of the theatre and the 1930s is somewhat lucky for Szabo as the film is already generating Oscar buzz, largely for a tour de force of a performance by Annette Bening.
When her current “gentleman friend” Lord Charles (Bruce Greenwood) decides that they shouldn’t be seen together in public anymore, Julia seeks solace in an affair with a young American man named Tom Fennell (Shaun Evans), who claims to be her biggest fan.
In short, Being Julia is an enjoyable film, with an agreeably sharp, occasionally quite spiteful script and a potentially Oscar-winning performance from Anette Bening.
www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_2273.html   (507 words)

  
 Being Julia | Movie review | Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au (17-03-2005)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
While it's safe to say that Julia Lambert doesn't pack as much of a punch as Million Dollar Baby's Maggie Fitzgerald, and that she lacks the gritty humility of a Vera Drake, the celebrated West End actress is just as impressive a character in her own theatrical right.
Julia has fame, fortune, and a flotilla of fawning admirers (including Miriam Margolyes's predatorial patron and Juliet Stevenson's no-nonsense dresser).
Julia and her husband (Jeremy Irons) have an "arrangement" when it comes to affairs of the heart.
entertainment.news.com.au /story/0,10221,12611856-7622,00.html   (483 words)

  
 Being Julia - MoviesOnline!
Julia is approaching a delicate time in her life, at her peak physically and
Julia seems to be setting the stage for her own retirement, deferring to the
Being Julia is a delicious tale of amorous folly and revenge set i...
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 Movie Lists -Julia Roberts Filmography
Julia Roberts became first became noticed with her emotional performance in Steel Magnolias, but Julia became a bonafied movie star with her next film, Pretty Woman (
Since then Julia Roberts has continued to have success on the big screen including such hit movies as My Best Friend's Wedding, Runaway Bride, and Ocean's Eleven.
Julia Roberts has been named a record setting eight times as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People magazine.
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 Amazon.com: DVD: Erin Brockovich (2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any way she knew how.
She may not be the most professional (this movie is cleavage city!), or meekest person you'll ever meet (her boss says she could use a good dose of "charm school" - he's right!) but she has a way with people.
Julia is at her best here in a story that touches you in a fundamental way and shows that the determination of one person can make a difference.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXFV?v=glance   (2131 words)

  
 The Prince and Me | DVD Review | Movie | Pictures | Julia Stiles | Paramount   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Paige is determined to not let love get in the way of her dreams of becoming a doctor - which on one hand is pretty cool and on the other hand is pretty frustrating cuz you really want them to hurry up and fall in love (it is a romance movie, after all).
At first you think that Edvard doesn't deserve a girl like Paige cuz he's so self-centered but as the movie goes on you realize that Edvard just needs to grow up a bit - which he eventually does.
There are a ton of great romantic movies out there - you'd be much better off checking out something like The Princess Diaries or A Cinderella Story.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p4752.htm   (554 words)

  
 Julia Roberts movie in Movies-Studio.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Julia Roberts will lend her vocals in the lead role of Charlotte A. Cavatica, a spider and heroine of the book who goes out of her way to save Wilbur the pig's life...
A bitingly funny and honest look at modern relationships, Closer is the story of four strangers (Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen) -- their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals.
While the nation struggles with the fears that accompany a shifting political culture, the powers that be...
www.movies-studio.com /actors/julia_roberts/index.html   (298 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Adorable Julia : Plot
Adorable Julia, by director Alfred Weidenmann, is perhaps a little too provincial or out-moded for most audiences in spite of the sophisticated allure of Lili Palmer and
At the moment, the aging Julia is involved in an affair with Tom (Jean Sorel), a younger man more interested in climbing up the social ladder via this liaison than in any real romantic commitment.
For several different reasons, Julia finally begins to see the light and starts to reconsider her long and well-established relationship with her husband.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/447/plot.jhtml   (147 words)

  
 Julia Roberts Online.com :: The Julia Roberts community online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Julia Roberts, in her first filmed role since the birth of her twins last year, stars as a woman with unsettling dreams in the clip for the band's second single from Stand Up.
Of course, Julia Roberts could care less about movies now that she has her new twins to take care of.
Julia Roberts may be envy of new mothers
www.juliarobertsonline.com   (513 words)

  
 Being Julia Movie Review - MovieWeb
Based on the novel Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham, it is the story of reigning diva Julia Lambert whose success and fame grow suddenly wearisome.
When you have a performance as fresh and audacious as this one from a movie star who doesn't average a film a year, it makes you wonder why we see so little of her.
As the great Julia Lambert, the toast of the London stage in the early ‘30s, she's struck by a premonition of fading vitality at the grand age of forty.
www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/263236   (763 words)

  
 1977: 'Julia' and Muriel Gardiner
Based on one of three autobiographies by writer Hellman, who was portrayed by Jane Fonda, the movie left a generation with the impression the famed author helped the enemies of Hitler in Austria.
She was "Julia," Gardiner said, and Lillian Hellman had never smuggled anything to her in her days with the underground.
Her friend smuggled in the passports in her high-fashion fur hat, just as happened in the movie "Julia." Hellman responded to Gardiner's claims by saying the tale in her third autobiography, called "Pentimento," had occurred and that the "Julia" she wrote about was another American in Vienna helping the underground.
www.capitalcentury.com /1977.html   (1077 words)

  
 AllMovieStar.com : Julia Stiles photo gallery
Julia Stiles arrives to the New York Premiere of "The Secretary" at the Clearview Chelsea West Theater on West 23rd.
Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Kirsten Dunst arrive to the New York Premiere of "The Secretary" at the Clearview Chelsea West Theater on West 23rd.
Actress JULIA STILES with actors BEN MILLER (left) & LUKE MABLEY at the Cannes Film Festival to promote their movie The Prince and the Freshman.
www.allmoviestar.com /h/julia_stiles.html   (311 words)

  
 Being Julia movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
In her forties and claiming to be burned out, Julia pleas with her producer husband Michael (Jeremy Irons) to end the run of her current show so that she can rest.
Tom, on the other hand, enjoys his flings with Julia, but now has his eye on a young and upcoming actress named Avie Crichton (Lucy Punch), who is yearning for a supporting role in Julia’s new play.
Michael Gambon chews the scenery, but is likeable as Julia’s deceased theatre mentor that constantly serves as her acting conscious throughout the film.
www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/b/beingjulia.htm   (667 words)

  
 Amazon.com: DVD: Julia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
As Julia's long-time lover, Dashell Hammitt, the late Jason Robards nailed down one of his back-to-back Supporting Actor Oscars ("All the President's Men" was the other), and the raw talent of the Fonda-Redgrave-Robards package helps make "Julia" one of Fonda's best works.
The importance of the film's subject matter is so overwhelming that it easily displaces the Vietnam-related controvery that dogged (and may still) Fonda through the '70s and the unpopular words Redgrave used in her Oscar acceptance speech (she was literally booed off the stage).
Far from a "chick flic," "Julia" is an important film that delves into but one relam in the darkest of human history, and it's earned a lofty spot among films of its genre.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007ZEOPK?v=glance   (1367 words)

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