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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...
DIED. Alan Schneider, 66, consummate stage director best known for his productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter; of brain injuries received when he was hit by a motorcycle; in London. Schneider was noted for his exacting fidelity to even the most complex script, as he worked to transmit the inner truth of a play rather than impose on it any other vision. He crusaded particularly for Beckett, and his productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, among others, profoundly influenced the course of modern theater. Also closely associated with Albee...
...dialogues in a Harold Pinter play are pitched battles between speech and silence. The speaker marshals all the resources of colloquial language-wit, wheedling, anecdote, abuse-while the listener waits out his opponent and, often as not, wins the battle by withholding approval, by being as silent as God. Such, too, is the uneasy symbiosis of Playwright Pinter and his audience. In these three short plays that Alan Schneider has mounted off-Broadway (two of them first performed at London's National Theater in 1982, the third earlier this year), Pinter dramatizes this relationship through three memorable audience surrogates...
...Alaska Pinter has taken a TV-movie disease-of-the-week subject and alchemized it into a searing, sympathetic portrait of a lost soul who must seek solace in the dreams and embarrassments of an idyllic girlhood. Wiest's performance is an astonishment. Every word she speaks rings with both a child's self-possession and a flinty woman's solitude; each step she takes is as shaky as an inebriate's on a tightrope in a high wind. And Pinter, by daring to be accessible, has fashioned a small miracle of a play...
...epic novel has intrigued and defied the efforts of such talented screenwriters and directors as Harold Pinter, Luchino Visconti and Peter Brook. For 22 years Producer Nicole Stephane could not get anyone to complete a film based on Marcel Proust's seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past. Then, "motivated by pure altruism," German Director Volker Schlŏndorff (The Tin Drum), 44, agreed to "jump on the sinking vessel to try to save it." He focused on a single vignette from the book. English Actor Jeremy Irons, 35, and Italian Screen Siren Ornella Muti, 28, signed to play Swann...