Dirk Bogarde on TCM
Strangely, Dirk Bogarde never became a major star in the United States. I’m sure he was well known in the US in the ’50s and ’60s, but he wasn’t the superstar he was in Britain or the top star he was internationally. Perhaps Bogarde just didn’t care for Hollywood stardom — certainly not when in Europe he got to work for the likes of Joseph Losey, Luchino Visconti, Alain Resnais, Liliana Cavani, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Schlesinger, Anthony Asquith, and the now all-but-forgotten but generally capable Basil Dearden.
Anyhow, today is Dirk Bogarde day as Turner Classic Movies continues with its "Summer Under the Stars" series, which features two TCM premieres later this evening: The Blue Lamp [...]
by Andre Soares | August 10, 2009
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Tags: Basil Dearden, Classic Movies, Darling, Dirk Bogarde, Gay Interest, Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey, Julie Christie, So Long at the Fair, TCM, The Servant, Turner Classic Movies
Golden Beetles 2008 Nominations
The nominations for the 2008 Golden Beetles — Sweden’s version of the Academy Awards — have been announced.
Roy Andersson’s best picture nominee You, the Living (above), a low-key comedy about the day-to-day difficulties of human life, was Sweden’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Academy Award. Late last year, Andersson received a best director nomination at the European Film Awards.
Johan Kling’s Darling, the year’s most nominated film and the Swedish Film Critics’ Association’s best film pick, is a Stockholm-set dark comedy of manners about a young woman whose path crosses that of a 60-year-old man. Darling had its production funding suspended by the Swedish Film Institute and had to be financed independently.
The third best film nominee, Josef [...]
by Andre Soares | January 8, 2008
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Tags: Arn: The Knight Templar, Bibi Andersson, Darling, Film Awards, Golden Beetle, Golden Beetle 2008, Johan Kling, Josef Fares, Roy Andersson, You the Living
