Moderato (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
There is hardly time or space for anything more than a footnote on the subject of Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve at the age of 78. But this week I found myself watching The Servant – the 1963 film Pinter scripted for director Joseph Losey, starring James Fox and Dirk Bogarde. I marvelled [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Great playwrights don't necessarily make good, or even proficient, screenwriters.
Blognor Regis (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
My model is General Patton. He taught us that you can pretty much get away with anything as long as you are bloody good at your job. I've gotten away with loads in my time. This maxim doesn't apply quite so much in the rarefied world of the arts mind you. As long as you strike the right poses the quality of your work can be but an afterthought. However... I'm not familiar with Pinter's oeuvre,
SFGate: Culture Blog! (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
A Bridge Too Far (1977) With the holidays coming, I'm thinking of one of my favorite traditions -- not the trimming of the tree or the annual Dec. 24th viewing of It's A Wonderful Life , but...
Musselsoppans Vänner (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Sebastian from 1968 Directed by David Greene Starring: Dirk Bogarde Susannah York John Gielgud Lilli Palmer Donald Sutherland also appears in a minor roll. "Codes were made to be broken. / Women were made to be loved. / Sebastian was made to do both!" / "We can't tell you what he does (it's an international secret) but he does it with 100 girls... and does it the best!" / "Nobody knows what he does...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
‘You — what’s the bleeding time?’ Sir Lancelot Spratt, consultant surgeon at St Swithin’s, barks at Dirk Bogarde’s trainee doctor. ‘Ten past ten, sir’ is the sheepish answer. Another cherishable exchange in the long-running series of medical comedies sees a patient complaining about shrapnel up the — ‘rectum'’ offers Spratt. ‘Well,’ comes the plaintive reply, ‘it didn’t do ’em any good.’ Gruff and...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... Too close to Dirk Bogarde .
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
A compendium of classics from the acclaimed émigré director, including The Go-Between , The Servant and Accident . Rating:5
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Pat Kavanagh, the glamorous doyenne of literary agents and wife of the novelist Julian Barnes (pictured with Kavanagh), died from a brain tumour yesterday aged 68. Tributes to her…
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
EVER, DIRK: THE BOGARDE LETTERS EDITED BY JOHN COLDSTREAM (WEIDENFELD, £25)
Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
This article of mine on the late British actor Dirk Bogarde (pictured above) appears in the Daily Express. With his good looks, easy charm and clean-cut image, he was the archetypal leading man of Fifties British cinema but off-screen Dirk Bogarde was a very different man from the characters he invariably portrayed. While in films, the actor known as ‘The Matinee Idol of the Odeon’ played the romantic...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
The writer tucks into a fry-up with Beryl Bainbridge and gets fed up with the British Library
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Jeremy Lewis enjoys the correspondence of Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
The First Post (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Edited by John Coldstream, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 536pp, £25. In 1969, Dirk Bogarde left Britain to live in a remote farmhouse in Provence, and "there began a lengthy transition from…
Light reading (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Adam Mars-Jones has a thoughtful piece at the Observer on the problem with publishing Dirk Bogarde's letters , and I cannot resist pasting in these paragraphs: Dirk Bogarde's books were painstakingly shaped and rewritten. Writing letters functioned as a sort of five-finger exercise for him, but they were exercises mainly in the key of G: gush and grumble. The English moan is a complex phenomenon. Well-off...
