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
Joseph Losey bfi Schedule
Joseph Losey at the bfi
Schedule and film info from the bfi:
Accident
* 5 – 18 June
Joseph Losey’s brilliant study of simmering class conflict, sexual tension and the British character.
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.
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.
The Criminal
* Sun 14 Jun 15:20
* Fri 19 Jun 20:40
Stanley Baker stars as a doomed gangster in this unquestionably outstanding movie.
The Damned
* 23 – 28 June
A riveting nuclear-angst thriller set in ‘the age of senseless violence’.
The Lawless / [...]
by Andre Soares | May 29, 2009
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Tags: Accident, bfi, British Film Institute, Classic Movies, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Losey, London Screenings, Stranger on the Prowl, The Boy with Green Hair, The Sleeping Tiger
Joseph Losey at the bfi
Dirk Bogarde, James Fox in The Servant (top); The Damned (bottom)
"Among the greatest things that happened to British cinema were the arrival on our shores of the Korda brothers in the 30s, Losey in the 50s and Kubrick in the 60s," reads the introduction to an upcoming Joseph Losey series, which runs June 1-July 23 at the bfi Southbank in London.
The Wisconsin-born (on Jan. 14, 1909) Ivy Leage-educated Losey became a political refugee following the post-World War II anti-Red hysteria. He fled to Britain where he would remain for the next three decades until his death in 1984.
The most curious thing about the bfi series is an omission: The Go-Between (1971), a scathing attack on social mores [...]
by Andre Soares | May 29, 2009
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Tags: bfi, British Film Institute, Classic Movies, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Losey, London Screenings, The Damned, The Servant