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| Joseph
Losey |
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| Director
/ Producer / Screenwriter |
| 1909 - 1984 |
| Born January 14, La
Crosse, Wisconsin, USA |
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Production Countries: UK, USA |
| Key Genres:
Drama, Psychological Drama, Thriller, Film Noir, Romantic Drama |
| Key
Collaborators: Reginald Beck (Editor), Dirk Bogarde (Leading
Player), Norman Priggen (Producer), Alexander Knox (Leading Character Player),
Gerry Fisher (Cinematographer), Reginald Mills (Editor), John Dankworth
(Composer), Richard MacDonald (Production Designer), Stanley Baker
(Leading Player), Harold Pinter (Screenwriter/Character
Player) |
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Recommended: The
Lawless (1949), The Prowler (1951), The Sleeping Tiger (1954) |
| Recommended: The
Boy with Green Hair (1948), Big Night (1951), The Criminal (1960), The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [ All-Movie
Guide ] [ Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[ Senses
of Cinema Article ] [ Senses
of Cinema Article #2 ] [
Art and Culture Profile ] [ Film
Comment Article (2004) ] [
Screen Online
Biography ] [
Britmovie Biography ]
[
Images
Journal DVD Reviews ] [
Moving Image Source Article (2008) ] |
| Books: [
The
Films of Joseph Losey ] [ Joseph
Losey: A Revenge on Life ] [
Joseph Losey (British Film Makers) ] [
Conversations with Losey ] [
The Cinema of Joseph Losey ] |
| DVD's:
[ Amazon
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| 1,000
Greatest Films: The Servant
(1963), The Go-Between (1971) |
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250 Quintessential Noir Films:
M (1951), The Prowler (1951) |
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"Like
many directors, Losey seems more effective when he transcends
conventions than when he avoids them altogether. Genre movies
give him the distancing he needs to writhe expressively on the
screen. By contrast, movies about Life and Time and The World
seem to make him relatively subdued, functional, and impersonal." - Andrew
Sarris (The American Cinema, 1968) |
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"A victim of the
McCarthy witch-hunts, Joseph Losey, who made several taut movies
in Hollywood, was forced into exile in England, where he became
a sharp observer of the social mores of his new home...He became
part of the "new realism" movement of British cinema, although
he developed a more baroque visual style using elaborate camera
movements, shock angles, and dramatic set designs." -
Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"Joseph
Losey's career spanned five decades and included work in both
theater and film. The early years of his life as a director were
spent in the very different milieus of New Deal political
theater projects and the paranoia of the Hollywood studio system
during the McCarthy era. He was blacklisted in 1951 and left
America for England where he continued making films, at first
under a variety of pseudonyms. His work is both controversial
and critically acclaimed, and Losey has long been recognized as
a director with a distinctive and highly personal cinematic
style." -
Janet E. Lorenz (The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia, 1998) |
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"Shadowy figures moving through an indistinct landscape describe
the best films of Losey. He creates atmospheres of paranoia,
fear, alienation, and disillusionment like nobody else in cinema
today." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"Films
can illustrate our existence...they can distress, disturb and
provoke people into thinking about themselves and certain
problems. But NOT give the answers." -
Joseph Losey |
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