The Servant Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them," said British playwright and screenwriter Harold Pinter, 75, during his Literature Nobel Prize acceptance speech on Wed., Dec. 7. "You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. [...]