Joseph Losey bfi Schedule

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Joseph Losey at the bfi

Schedule and film info from the bfi:

Dirk Bogarde in Accident

Accident

* 5 – 18 June

Joseph Losey’s brilliant study of simmering class conflict, sexual tension and the British character.

The Big Night by Joseph Losey

The Big Night

* Thu 4 Jun 18:40
* Tue 9 Jun 18:20

Joseph Losey’s final American film co-scripted with novelist Stanley Ellin.

Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker in Blind Date

Blind Date

* Mon 1 Jun 20:40
* Tue 9 Jun 20:45
* Sat 13 Jun 16:00

A tough, socially critical thriller about a murder frame-up.

Stanley Baker in The Criminal

The Criminal

* Sun 14 Jun 15:20
* Fri 19 Jun 20:40

Stanley Baker stars as a doomed gangster in this unquestionably outstanding movie.

Viveca Lindfors in The Damned

The Damned

* 23 – 28 June

A riveting nuclear-angst thriller set in ‘the age of senseless violence’.

Macdonald Carey in The Lawless

The Lawless / The Dividing Line

* 2 – 21 June

A hard-hitting, 30s-style thriller exploring the social-conscience.

Early Shorts Programme

* Fri 5 Jun 20:30
* Sat 6 Jun 18:10 NFT3

Joseph Losey’s public service documentaries, and a puppet movie…

Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker in Eva

Eve

* Mon 22 Jun 20:30
* Wed 24 Jun 18:10

A formidable work of perverse erotic power.

Melina Mercouri in The Gypsy and the Gentleman

The Gypsy and the Gentleman

* Thu 18 Jun 18:10
* Sat 20 Jun 20:40
* Wed 24 Jun 14:00

Joseph Losey injects Brechtian historical reality into a Regency melodrama.

The Intimate Stranger by Joseph Losey

The Intimate Stranger

* Fri 12 Jun 18:20
* Sat 13 Jun 20:45
* Sat 20 Jun 18:20

A complicated, elegant B-feature thriller starring the always angsty Richard Basehart.

Joseph Losey: An Illustrated Introduction

* Mon 1 Jun 18:30

James Leahy explores differing conceptions of Losey’s cinema.

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* Thu 4 Jun 20:45
* Sun 21 Jun 20:45 NFT3
* Thu 25 Jun 18:15

A close transposition of Fritz Lang’s 1931 masterpiece to Los Angeles.

Van Heflin in The Prowler

The Prowler

* Wed 3 Jun 18:10
* Sat 6 Jun 20:45

Self-deceiving characters are abound in this noir thriller, Losey’s finest American film.

Dirk Bogarde, James Fox in The Servant

The Servant

* 14 June – 23 July

Joseph Losey’s astute study of class conflict, adapted by Harold Pinter.

Dirk Bogarde in The Sleeping Tiger

The Sleeping Tiger + A Man on the Beach

* 11 – 21 June

Hyper-charged Freudian stuff in Joseph Losey’s stark melodrama.

Paul Muni in Stranger on the Prowl

Stranger on the Prowl

* Fri 5 Jun 18:10
* Sun 7 Jun 16:10

A melodrama shot in Italy, marking the beginning of Losey’s European work.

Dean Stockwell in The Boy with Green Hair

The Boy with Green Hair

* Tue 2 Jun 18:20
* Sat 6 Jun 13:30 NFT3

Joseph Losey’s feature debut, a forceful fable about prejudice and xenophobia.

Ann Todd, Michael Redgrave in Time Without Pity

Time Without Pity

* Mon 15 Jun 18:30
* Wed 17 Jun 20:50

Joseph Losey explores issues of anti-capital punishment.


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