JosephLosey &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:JosephLosey @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:14:23 +0200 The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 14/div div class="X" /div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary The Sleeping Tiger (1954)/div div class="caption" A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman ./div div class="txt" "If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys." ### – Glenda Esmond /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954)

Jan

14

spoiler warning: click to toggle image The Sleeping Tiger (1954)

A cheque dated January 14. DP: Harry Waxman .

“If the halo fits, put it on. And don't pretend you don't love winding people up like little toys.”

– Glenda Esmond

#FilmDuJour #January #JosephLosey #MauriceMoiseiwitsch #DirkBogarde #AlexisSmith #AlexanderKnox #HughGriffith #PatriciaMcCarron #MalcolmArnold #HarryWaxman #drama #romance #crime FilmNoir #BookAdaptation #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-08l0 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0100 The Criminal [The Concrete Jungle] (Joseph Losey, 1960) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ql5s <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Criminal [The Concrete Jungle] (Joseph Losey, 1960)/div div class="month" Nov/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 21/div div class="occasion" chow time/div div class="img" The Criminal (1960).png)/div div class="caption" A prison space. Two tough looking guys in dark clothing appear to savour their meals. One of them is holding a book. DP: Robert Krasker./div div class="txt" &nbsp; /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #PrisonChow #JosephLosey #StanleyBaker #SamWanamaker #GrégoireAslan #MargitSaad #JillBennett #JohnDankworth #RobertKrasker #drama #crime #jazz #UK #1960s ★★★½ ♥︎/div /section ]]>

The Criminal [The Concrete Jungle] (Joseph Losey, 1960)

Nov

21

chow time

The Criminal (1960)

A prison space. Two tough looking guys in dark clothing appear to savour their meals. One of them is holding a book. DP: Robert Krasker.

 

#FilmDinner #PrisonChow #JosephLosey #StanleyBaker #SamWanamaker #GrégoireAslan #MargitSaad #JillBennett #JohnDankworth #RobertKrasker #drama #crime #jazz #UK #1960s ★★★½ ♥︎

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-ql5s Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:23:10 +0100 Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/figures-in-a-landscape-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Figures in a Landscape (1970)/div div class="caption" MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary./div div class="txt" "I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on." ### – Ansell /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #JosephLosey #BarryEngland #RobertShaw #MalcolmMcDowell #RichardRodneyBennett #HenriAlekan #PeterSuschitzky #GuyTabary #BookAdaptation #manhunt #thriller #drama #action #UK #Spain #1970s ★★★★½/div /section ]]>

Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)

Jul

17

Figures in a Landscape (1970)

MacConnachie (Robert Shaw, standing and peering upwards) and Ansell (Malcolm McDowell, squatting and facing away) in a barren landscape. Both have their hands tied behind their back. DPs: Henri Alekan, Peter Suschitzky & Guy Tabary.

“I'll tell you what though, Mac. There'll be no more games from now on.”

– Ansell

#FilmDuJour #July #JosephLosey #BarryEngland #RobertShaw #MalcolmMcDowell #RichardRodneyBennett #HenriAlekan #PeterSuschitzky #GuyTabary #BookAdaptation #manhunt #thriller #drama #action #UK #Spain #1970s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/figures-in-a-landscape-1970 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0200 X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x-the-unknown-1956 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956)/div div class="month" Oct/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 24/div div class="occasion" scoff/div div class="img" X the Unknown (1956)/div div class="caption" Two soldiers on nightshift ready to eat. One of them hands a mess tin with grub to the other when there's a sound. DP: Gerald Gibbs./div div class="txt" – What's that? – Tea. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDinner #LeslieNorman #JosephLosey #DeanJagger #JamesBernard #GeraldGibbs #horror #SciFi #HammerFilms #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

X the Unknown (Leslie Norman + Joseph Losey, 1956)

Oct

24

scoff

X the Unknown (1956)

Two soldiers on nightshift ready to eat. One of them hands a mess tin with grub to the other when there's a sound. DP: Gerald Gibbs.

– What's that? – Tea.

#FilmDinner #LeslieNorman #JosephLosey #DeanJagger #JamesBernard #GeraldGibbs #horror #SciFi #HammerFilms #UK #USA #1950s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/x-the-unknown-1956 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:02:32 +0200 The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-servant-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="occasion" National Authenticity Day/div div class="img" The Servant (1963)/div div class="caption" Manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) and his master Tony (James Fox). Tony is asleep in a folding chair wearing an overcoat in a sparse room with crumbling walls. Barrett – immaculately dressed in a dark overcoat, hat, gloves, tie – stands in the doorway, looking down on the sleeping man. DP: Douglas Slocombe./div div class="txt" – What do you want from this house? – Want? – Yes. Want. – I'm just the servant, miss. – Get my lunch. ### /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAuthenticityDay #JosephLosey #HaroldPinter #RobinMaugham #DirkBogarde #SarahMiles #WendyCraig #JamesFox #JohnDankworth #DouglasSlocombe #BookAdaptation #UK #1960s ★★★★☆ /div /section ]]>

The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)

Aug

16

National Authenticity Day

The Servant (1963)

Manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) and his master Tony (James Fox). Tony is asleep in a folding chair wearing an overcoat in a sparse room with crumbling walls. Barrett – immaculately dressed in a dark overcoat, hat, gloves, tie – stands in the doorway, looking down on the sleeping man. DP: Douglas Slocombe.

– What do you want from this house? – Want? – Yes. Want. – I'm just the servant, miss. – Get my lunch.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAuthenticityDay #JosephLosey #HaroldPinter #RobinMaugham #DirkBogarde #SarahMiles #WendyCraig #JamesFox #JohnDankworth #DouglasSlocombe #BookAdaptation #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-servant-1963 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:36:23 +0200 The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-damned-1962 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 19/div div class="occasion" National Automatic Door Day/div div class="img" The Damned (1962)/div div class="caption" An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant./div div class="txt" An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.\ "I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!" ### – King\ ##### The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control. &nbsp; They are the damned./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½ /div /section ]]>

The Damned [These Are the Damned] (Joseph Losey, 1962)

Mar

19

National Automatic Door Day

The Damned (1962)

An 11-year old boy, Henry (Kit Williams), opens a featureless door in a rock surface for a drenched King (Oliver Reed). DP: Arthur Grant.

An American tourist visiting Dorset is tricked by a prostitute, then falls victim to a youth gang controlled by volatile con King – a still very green Oliver Reed at his meanest. The trickster is King's sister, who confides in the American hoping to escape her brother's incestuous advances.

“I'm strange, all right! I'll show you just how strange I am!”

– King

The couple elopes to a nearby island, closely followed by King and his gang, where they find a group of #children, all contently living in an underground lab, with #AutomaticDoors only they can control.

 

They are the damned.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalAutomaticDoorDay #JosephLosey #HLLawrence #MacdonaldCarey #ShirleyAnneField #OliverReed #KitWilliams #JamesBernard #ArthurGrant #horror #drama #SciFi #romance #bikers #ColdWar #BookAdaptation #HammerFilms #Dorset #UK #1960s ★★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-damned-1962 Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:51:35 +0100 Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/limmortelle-1963 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967)/div div class="month" Feb/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 1/div div class="occasion" Car Insurance Day /div div class="img" Accident (1967)/div div class="caption" Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) on the backseat of a car, her head tilted back. DP: Gerry Fisher./div div class="txt" A car accident. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #CarInsuranceDay #JosephLosey #NicholasMosley #HaroldPinter #DirkBogarde #StanleyBaker #JacquelineSassard #MichaelYork #VivienMerchant #DelphineSeyrig #JohnDankworth #GerryFisher #drama #romance #thriller #CarCrash #BookAdaptation #UK #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Accident (Joseph Losey, 1967)

Feb

1

Car Insurance Day

Accident (1967)

Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) on the backseat of a car, her head tilted back. DP: Gerry Fisher.

A car accident.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #CarInsuranceDay #JosephLosey #NicholasMosley #HaroldPinter #DirkBogarde #StanleyBaker #JacquelineSassard #MichaelYork #VivienMerchant #DelphineSeyrig #JohnDankworth #GerryFisher #drama #romance #thriller #CarCrash #BookAdaptation #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/limmortelle-1963 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:59:59 +0100