Word: losey
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DIED. Joseph Losey, 75, expatriate American cinema director whose films were relentless, almost clinical studies of human frailty and spiritual corruption; of cancer; in London. An avowed leftist forced into exile by the McCarthy-era blacklist, he started working in England in 1952 and collaborated with Writer Harold Pinter on most of his best films, including The Servant (1963), Accident (1966) and The Go-Between, which won first prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
...their 155-mm cannons and missile-armed Cobra helicopters. At about 9:45 a.m., the first of two 82-mm mortar shells came cascading into the command tent where Staff Sergeant Alexander M. Ortega, 25, was getting batteries for radios. Just outside the tent, Second Lieut. Donald G. Losey Jr., 28, was running from one bunker to another, checking on his men. Both men were hit by shrapnel and died shortly thereafter. Fourteen other Marines were wounded before the fighting finally subsided...
Strong emotions are the very stuff of grand opera, yet film has had a hard time portraying them in all their complexity. Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute delighted in the playfulness of Mozart's fairy tale but missed its underlying seriousness. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni emphasized the same composer's brooding drama but failed to locate it within the realm of the human comedy. Zeffirelli's La Traviata strikes just the right note. Visually stunning and musically thrilling, it is the finest operatic movie yet made. It should appeal even to those...
...shoot a stage production. A breakthrough came in 1975, when Ingmar Bergman produced a charming The Magic Flute that began in a replica of Stockholm's 18th century Drottningholm Court Theater and from time to time moved beyond the confines of the stage. Even more ambitious was Joseph Losey's mesmeric Don Giovanni (1979), expansively set amid the Palladian splendors of northern Italy...
Compared with Boorman, the other two major mannerists of the English cinema -Joseph Losey and Ken Russell-look like a pair of sensible shoes...