Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of André François
Adrian CurryA look at the other work of Pierre Etaix’s favorite poster designer.
Joseph Losey
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"Kiss Me Deadly" and More DVDs
David HudsonCriterion releases Kiss Me Deadly on DVD and Blu-ray today and, for the occasion, they're running an essay by J Hoberman adapted from his book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of
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Sontag and More DVDs; Top British Films and More Lists
David Hudson"If there is one aspect of Susan Sontag's multifaceted life that has resisted enshrinement, it is her film career." In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim addresses the impact of her film criticism before
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Joseph Losey, DVDs
David HudsonIcons of Suspense: Hammer Films, an "attractively priced (if modestly packaged) three-disc collection from Sony offers six lesser-known, black-and-white thrillers from the studio," and for the New
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Weekend. ND/NF 2010 and Other Events
David HudsonAlong with second screenings of a handful of its offerings, New Directors / New Films introduces four more titles this weekend: Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl in the World, Dima El-Horr's Every Day is
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Losey, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Karmakar and More
David Hudson"Revived for a week at Film Forum in an excellent restored print, The Prowler (1951) may be the creepiest of classic noirs," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "Joseph Losey's hard-to-see third feature
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At the Cinematheque: "The Prowler" (Joseph Losey, 1951)
Daniel KasmanA post-War masterpiece from soon-to-be blacklisted director, Joseph Losey.
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Boom!" (Joseph Losey, 1968)
Glenn KennyUnlike some directors who give up on a bad script or else send it up, one senses that you always try to play fair; but in some of those early British films, one also sense a kind of irony behind their
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Servant"
Adrian CurryIn London last month I caught a small, fascinating exhibition at the British Film Institute on the collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter. This magical alliance yielded
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Secret Ceremony" (Losey, 1968)
Glenn KennyWith 1967's Accident, American-born director Joseph Losey, who had been living and working in Europe since the early '50s after fleeing the Hollywood blacklist, seemed to solidify his reputation as a
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Big Night" (Losey, 1951)
Glenn KennyThe first minutes of this picture, the last one Joseph Losey made in the United States, are weirdly bracing in a way that seems unique to late '40s-early '50s noir-inflected B pictures. Young George
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Go Between" (Losey, Pinter, 1971)
Glenn KennyI had intended to begin this appraisal of the film by discussing an impulse in late '60s British cinema (and, to a lesser extent, literary fiction; c.f. Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman) to break