Wikio - Joseph Losey

Cultural Life: Linda Grant, Author (The Independent)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:01 GMT

... to stop them rioting." Books I read all the time. Around three weeks ago I saw a screening of the Joseph Losey adaptation of The Go-Between, which took me back to a re-reading of the 1953 L P Hartley novel. I don't think it's quite a forgotten masterpiece, but masterpiece it is. And from Hartley, I thought I'd take another crack at Henry James, but then the Booker longlist came out...

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'I am very fond of me, as I have told you' (3quarksdaily)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:05:37 GMT

... and international, but also in a sequence of superb films written by Harold Pinter and directed by Joseph Losey, and one of the few films - Victim, about a homosexual blackmailing - which had a manifest effect on British social attitudes. At this zenith, he left the country and took up residence in a land he hardly knew and whose language he didn't speak, declaring himself disgusted...

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Ronald Bergan on his role in the longest film ever (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:10:07 GMT

... it were a lemon." Her efforts to get Alain Resnais and Jacques Rivette came to nothing; nor did Joseph Losey's attempt (though the 1972 script by Harold Pinter has been published). Losey tried for years to get finance only to be told by one Hollywood bigwig, "This is the age of Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand. There are no roles for them here."

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A Walk on the Wild Side: Hollywood Scandals, Rumors & Tragedies (Biodun Iginla's Weblog)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:57:21 GMT

... of Hollywood wannabes, has-beens, cokeheads, burnouts, drunks, heroin addicts, rebels, sluts and losers grows year after year. So buckle up as we take a wild ride through the seamy side of Hollywood, the boulevard of lost souls and broken dreams. “My fun days are over.” — James Dean, shortly before his fatal car crash, 1955 Gore Vidal on Grace Kelly: “Grace almost always laid the...

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LEARNING FROM MANNY FARBER (Filmmaker Magazine: Blog)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:00 GMT

In Summer, 2005, the filmmaker Barbara Schock wrote a spirited piece for Filmmaker about studying film with critic and artist Manny Farber, who died on Tuesday. Mirroring Farber's rapid-fire thinking, Schock makes you feel like you're in his classroom as she writes about the man, his syllabus, and his teaching style. We've posted it in our Web Exclusives. Here's the intro: The phenomenal

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Review: Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters ed by John Coldstream (The Telegraph)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:20:56 GMT

... as a louche, decadent European actor, a sensibility foreshadowed by his bravura appearances in Joseph Losey's films such as The Servant.'A complete life is wiped out except for the clothes in the suitcase and a couple of photographs on the wall.' The letters open in 1969 as Bogarde establishes himself, and his long-term companion Anthony Forwood, at Clermont, a villa in Provence.This...

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Dirk Bogarde's letters - part two (The Telegraph)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:20:18 GMT

Dirk Bogarde had volatile relationships with his directors - not to mention his friends and fans - as these extracts from his private letters show Dirk Bogarde's most fruitful professional relationship was with the director Joseph Losey, who had left America for exile in England at the time of the McCarthy witch-hunts and Hollywood blacklists. Between 1954 and 1966 they collaborated on...

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Reel Hub: Modesty Blaise Preview (Bostonist)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:49:07 GMT

Modesty Blaise (1966) Friday, 7:00 PM and Boom! (1968) Saturday, 9:00 PM Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge More Information The Harvard Film Archive wraps-up its Joseph Losey retrospective this weekend with two of Losey's campier films, Boom! and Modesty Blaise . Starring Elizabeth Taylor and her sometimes-husband Richard Burton,...

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Modesty (Musselsoppans Vänner)

noreply@blogger.com (P-E Fronning) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:23:00 GMT

Modesty Blaise from 1966 ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) Directed by Joseph Losey ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) Starring: Monica Vitti ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) Terrence Stamp ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) Dirk Bogarde ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) Harry Andrews ( Wikipedia , IMDb ) There's not much in it for the fans of the original comic book Modesty and as a movie it's pretty awful - but the sets, the costumes, the op-art,...

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Obituary: Evelyn Keyes (The Guardian)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:51 GMT

... for one last embrace so she can infect him as a punishment for his infidelity.The Prowler (1951), Joseph Losey's tense thriller, had Keyes as a lonely, sexually-frustrated wife who has an affair with a cop (Van Heflin). After the cop shoots her sterile husband, making it seem as if he were a prowler, the two benighted lovers are locked in an atmosphere of mistrust and paranoia.In...

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Bunker Hill Blues (The Indypendent)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:30:12 GMT

... Hill neighborhood – previously a setting of underworld vagaries in such fifties crime fables as M (Joseph Losey, 1951) and Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) – is delineated through a shot rhythm that keeps pace with a loosely tied crew of Native American locals over a random twelve-hour nocturnal span. The camera traces these characters’ roaming, roving movements as if caught...

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Michael Caine: Character meets actor (Variety.com)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:04:47 GMT

Film News: Integrity, optimism, wit augment onscreen skill -- During a career spanning more than half a century, Michael Caine has worked with a who's-who of international directors -- including such legends as John Huston ("The Man Who Would Be King"), Joseph Losey ("The Romantic Englishwoman") and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("Sleuth"). Here, five modern helmers offer thoughts on the...

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Thread: 5056233302246017513. Post by michael farris (Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:07:47 GMT

... attention where you start to hear music -- then, WOW.What did it for me, instantaneously, was the Joseph Losey film of Don Giovanni, which I went to see out of curiosity. It really wasn't the film; it was the music that did it for me, even though the singing is not uniformly good and the staging is occasionally cringeworthy. Over the years the same music (I have my favorite recordings...

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917 (58). The Go-Between (1971, Joseph Losey), featuring Dan Callahan (The House Next Door)

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:00 GMT

By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ The third and final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter nabbed the 1971...

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Video Essay for 917 (58). The Go-Between (1971, Joseph Losey) featuring Dan Callahan (Shooting Down Pictures)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:06:20 GMT

Special thanks to Dan Callahan of The House Next Door, Slant Magazine and Bright Lights Film Journal for his many insights - and for the tweak of Atonement to give this film some contemporary relevance (as well as an excuse to show a Keira Knightley sex scene). Apologies for the murky video quality - [...]

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917 (58). The Go-Between (1971, Joseph Losey) (Shooting Down Pictures)

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:54:35 GMT

screened Monday June 3 2008 on VHS recording of TV broadcast in Brooklyn, NY TSPDT rank #821 IMDb Wiki The third and final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter nabbed the 1971 Cannes Palme d’Or at the expense of such films as Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (TSPDT #207), Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (TSPDT #611) [...]

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Cinephile Jacob's early work (Variety.com)

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:53:45 GMT

Film News: Excerpt from a 1966 essay on Joseph Losey -- Why, then, should this body of work which amounts almost to a scientific programme so often leave one with a sense of dissatisfaction?

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Cinematheque shows the film in which Bogie is called a "blind, knuckleheaded squirrel" (Letter from Here)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:20:00 GMT

... years intersected with some other famous Wisconsin native sons, including fellow director Joseph Losey (they attended the same high school in La Crosse), Thornton Wilder and Frank Lloyd Wright. Born in small-town Wisconsin in 1911, Nicholas Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the University of Chicago after a year, but made such...

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Philip French's pick of the top 50 films from the past five decades (The Guardian)

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:11:54 GMT

... tidal movement. Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962) The epic reaches epic heights. The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) The American exile Losey, the emerging playwright Pinter and the ambivalent actor Bogarde interrogate the new Britain. Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) The Zeitgeist as gangster film. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) A quantum leap for science...

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Stanley Baker - One for the Ladies (Babylon Wales)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:00:00 GMT

It was Stanley Baker 's peculiar brand of masculinity that so appealed to film directors Joseph Losey and Cy Enfield. He was the perfect antidote to all those urbane, stiff upper-lipped leading men of '50s British cinema. In many ways he had more in common with such American anti-heroes as Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin. Baker was adept at conveying both cocky working-class swagger and...

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