Darling / Shampoo

DARLING, 1965, Avco-Embassy & Stuart Lisell Films, 128 min. Dir. John Schlesinger. Julie Christie sets off fireworks in her Academy Award-winning performance as a common girl in swinging London who achieves supermodel stardom while breaking the hearts of intellectual writer, Dirk Bogarde and decadent cad, Laurence Harvey. Finally, Christie seems destined for a fairy tale ending when she weds Italian nobility -- but sometimes fairy tales aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. The costume design and Frederic Raphael’s incisive script also won Oscars.

SHAMPOO, 1975, Sony Repertory, 109 min. Director Hal Ashby’s classic mid-seventies comedy is a harsh and funny time capsule stuffed full of great performances. Warren Beatty excels in perhaps his best role, as an amorous hairdresser sleeping with every woman in sight, from the wife (Lee Grant) of his business advisor Jack Warden to Warden’s mistress (Julie Christie) and teenage daughter (Carrie Fisher.)