Christine (1983 film) "Christine". Kobritz purchased the rights to "Christine" after finding himself attracted to the novel's "celebration of America's obsession with the motorcar." According to John Carpenter, "Christine" was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as "a job" as opposed to a "personal project." He had previously directed "The Thing" (1982), which had done poorly at the box office and led to critical backlash. In retrospect, Carpenter stated that upon reading "Christine", he felt that "It just wasn't very frightening. But it was something I needed to do at that time for my career."
Christine Delphy Christine Delphy Christine Delphy (born 1941) is a French sociologist, feminist, writer and theorist. She was a co-founder of Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (Women's Liberation Movement) in 1970 and of the journal "Nouvelles questions féministes" (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1981. Christine Delphy was born in 1941 to her parents who owned a local pharmacy. In the documentary film on her life and ideas, ""Je ne suis pas féministe, mais..."" ("I am not a femnist, but..."") Delphy describes an early feminist consciousness in observing her parents: though running the pharmacy was labor-intensive for both of them,