Dirk Bogarde
2) The damned
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The most savagely subversive film by Luchino Visconti portrays Nazism's total corruption of the soul through the decaying opulence of one family's downfall that comes to stand for the moral rot of a nation.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. Setting Mann2s story of queer desire and bodily decay against the music of Gustav Mahler, it is one of cinema2s most exalted literary adaptations.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
An immensely popular British crime film, THE BLUE LAMP was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B. Clarke (The Lavender Hill Mob) and directed by the great Basil Dearden (Dead of Night). This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. A veteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley (Dirk Bogarde, The Mind Benders) and Spud (Patric Doonan, The Man in the White Suit). Rookie cop Andy Mitchell...
5) Accident
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is the subject of this difficult but rewarding drama. Director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter had previously collaborated on 1963's The Servant, and they surrounded this recasting of a Nicholas Mosley novel with a similar atmosphere of ominous mystery. The story is presented through flashbacks and disconnected memories that...
7) The servant
Series
Criterion collection volume 1182
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The prolific, ever-provocative Joseph Losey, blacklisted from Hollywood and living in England, delivered a coolly modernist shock to the system of that nation's cinema with this mesmerizing dissection of class, sexuality, and power. A dissolute scion of the upper crust finds the seemingly perfect manservant to oversee his new London townhouse. But not all is as it seems, as traditional social hierarchies are gradually, disturbingly destabilized. Lustrously...
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