Tag Archives: Joseph Losey

Pete’s Peek | Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s fantastically odd Boom on DVD

Posted on 1 December 2009 by peter

Throughout the 1960s, cinema’s royal couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton created some brilliant, beguiling and occasionally bewildering films – some of which were adapted from classic plays: Edward Albee’s shout-fest Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (catch it on Sky … Continue reading →

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Tonight’s British Sci-Fi Classic | Oliver Reed in The Damned

Posted on 16 October 2009 by peter

  The Damned (aka, These Are the Damned, 1963) BBC2, 2.05am Now here’s a little British gem to set your video for. From director Joseph Losey comes this bizarre sci-fi film noir set in Weymouth of all places. Trying to … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Time Regained – Raul Ruiz’s masterly screen version of Proust: as delicious as a Madeleine dipped in tea

Posted on 7 September 2009 by Jason Best

For years, the cognoscenti have agreed on two things about Marcel Proust’s epic 2,500-page, seven-volume semi-autobiographical novel A la recherché du temps perdu – it’s the greatest novel ever written and it’s un-filmable. Over the decades, the challenge of putting … Continue reading →

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