Penelope wrote:Personally, I prefer Christie in McCabe over The Go-Between, which isn't nearly as good as L.P. Hartley's novel (a cliché, true, but there we are); I can't recall if the movie retains the classic opening line of the book, which is familiar to all history majors: "The past is another country; they do things differently there."
As much as a die hard fan I am of Christie, she should really not have been nominated for McCabe (or The Go-Between, for that matter - a film I really otherwise like). Ruth Gordon should have been nominated, instead, for Harold and Maude.
Checking my own list of nods for that year, I notice that I HAVE included Christie and also Gordon while bumping off Janet Suzman (Nicholas and Alexandra). My choices are as follows:
Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
*Jane Fonda, Klute
Ruth Gordon, Harold and Maude
Glenda Jackson, Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Vanessa Redgrave, Mary, Queen of Scots