The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Obituary: Gone With the Wind actor who admitted to a colourful private life
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Exiles directed by Kent Mackenzie Milestone Films, 1961 “I’m not going to let you know how scared I sometimes get of history and its ways,” declares Jackson Jackson, the young Spokane (Wash.) narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (from Ten Little Indians), “I’m a strong man, and I know that silence is the [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Film News: Integrity, optimism, wit augment onscreen skill -- During a career spanning more than half a century, Michael Caine has worked with a who's-who of international directors -- including such legends as John Huston ("The Man Who Would Be King"), Joseph Losey ("The Romantic Englishwoman") and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ("Sleuth"). Here, five modern helmers offer thoughts on the actor and his achievements....
Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
"Beethoven only managed *one* opera in what was otherwise a top-flight musical career" And it gave him fits and has real stage problems (the last twenty minutes or so, nothing really .... happens). Anyway, I'd suggesst branching out slowly. Next step. Salome. Short (one act) loud, sex, violence. Elektra is about the same length, but far more disturbing, even for the composer who quickly
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
By Kevin B. Lee [ Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? ] _____________________ The third and final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter nabbed the 1971 Cannes Palme d’Or...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Special thanks to Dan Callahan of The House Next Door, Slant Magazine and Bright Lights Film Journal for his many insights - and for the tweak of Atonement to give this film some contemporary relevance (as well as an excuse to show a Keira Knightley sex scene). Apologies for the murky video quality - [...]
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
screened Monday June 3 2008 on VHS recording of TV broadcast in Brooklyn, NY TSPDT rank #821 IMDb Wiki The third and final collaboration between director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter nabbed the 1971 Cannes Palme d’Or at the expense of such films as Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (TSPDT #207), Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout (TSPDT #611) [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Film News: Excerpt from a 1966 essay on Joseph Losey -- Why, then, should this body of work which amounts almost to a scientific programme so often leave one with a sense of dissatisfaction?
Letter from Here (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Saturday night we saw a real treat at the UW Cinematheque -- a sparkling restored print of the Nicholas Ray film, "In a Lonely Place." The epithet hurled at Humphrey Bogart comes during a really over the top moment in the film. An enraged Bogie is driving wildly through the night in the Hollywood hills, costar Gloria Grahame at his side, when he sideswipes a car driven by a young man. The other driver...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Philip French's pick of the top 50 films from the past five decades
Babylon Wales (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
It was Stanley Baker 's peculiar brand of masculinity that so appealed to film directors Joseph Losey and Cy Enfield. He was the perfect antidote to all those urbane, stiff upper-lipped leading men of '50s British cinema. In many ways he had more in common with such American anti-heroes as Robert Mitchum and Lee Marvin. Baker was adept at conveying both cocky working-class swagger and insecurity; he...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Jasper Rees meets the soundtrack composer Michel Legrand, who abandoned Hollywood for a more interesting life and at 75 is about to put on his first stage musical
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Joseph Losey's Boom! (1968) is one of the most famously criticized and misunderstood films from the late sixties. Its original $3.9 million dollar budget seemed to have ballooned into 10 million by the time shooting stopped and the money was mainly used to pay the million dollar salaries of the film's two main stars (Elizabeth [...]
LIBERTAS (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Boy With Green Hair, The (1948) - An orphaned boy mystically acquires green hair and a mission to end war. Cast: Dean Stockwell, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan. Dir: Joseph Losey. C-82 mins, TV-G A non-too subtle allegory about prejudice and self-acceptance made memorable by a superb cast, especially young Dean Stockwell as the bearer of said hair. Some [...]
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
DVD Video Review: Joseph Losey's film version of Mozart and Da Ponte's opera is given a Deluxe 3-disc treatment, restoring the film with a new DTS soundtrack to an improved condition on the original. Noel Megahey reviews.
