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Jun 26, 2024 · Joseph Losey (born Jan. 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wis., U.S.—died June 22, 1984, London, Eng.) was an American motion-picture director, whose highly personal style was often manifested in films centring on intense and sometimes violent human relationships.
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Jun 29, 2024 · For several months now, I have waited for Netflix to add Joseph Losey’s 1963 film, The Servant, to their library. As sometimes happens in a city so devoted to filmmaking, fortunately, one of Los Angeles’ major independent theaters, Laemmle’s Royal, coincidentally announced a showing of a restored 50th anniversary version of the film ...
Jun 10, 2024 · Born in 1909 in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey began studying medicine at Harvard before turning to theater. The 1929 crisis sensitized him to social issues, and he emerged in the 1930s as a committed theater director.
Jun 29, 2024 · Having visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s to study the Russian stage, and working as a director for the WPS’s Federal Theatre Project, Joseph Losey seemed destined, it appears, to come under investigation in the 1940s by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
Jun 12, 2024 · Mauri Leighton (‘Maurie Lynn’) The Big Night is a relatively minor noir by Joseph Losey, shaded in that same year by his excellent remake of Fritz Lang’s M, and The Prowler, a thoroughly nasty noir that remains woefully underrated.
6 days ago · Take the case of Stephen (Dirk Bogarde), an Oxford don residing in a nearby country estate in Accident (1967), the Joseph Losey-directed classic playing at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (October 3 through 16) in a restored print.
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