Word: losey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were to steal from any filmmaker, Downey would take from Preston Sturges, the American director whose Sullivan's Travels and Hail, the Conquering Hero are full of the kind of zaniness that abounds in Swope . Other favorite movies of Downey's are Varda's Le Bouheur, Losey's Servant, Titicut Follies, Citizen Kane, the Marx Brothers/Sam Wood's Night at the Opera, Kazan's On the Waterfront, Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, and Truffaut's Jules...
...Caretaker--Pinter, Losey and Donald Pleasance. Through Saturday at the BRATTLE...
...against each other, she speaks to a nonexistent lover, fakes a rape scene and pretends to be pregnant by stuffing security toys under her dress. In such a warped triangle, nothing can go straight, and after a lot of lallygagging around the mansion and a seaside resort, Director Joseph Losey provides the anemic story with an inappropriately gory ending...
...many of his previous films-notably Accident and The Servant-Losey has shown skill at conjuring up corruption and terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the master, but brings none of his talent to the task. Nor is Losey much aided by his actors. Farrow continues to radiate a fragile elegance and a shrewd sense of character and timing. But she alone cannot make a movie...
...over Ingmar Bergman's Persona. An intense and deeply personal statement, Persona, to me, seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point is invariably reached when objectivity breaks down and is replaced by whim...