Blog Archive
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Reginald Beck: Invisible Artisan of Cinema
Reginald Beck (1902-1992) edited eighteen films of Losey’s, beginning in 1958 and stretching to Losey’s last, in 1985.
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The Driver’s Dilemma: My Racing Dreams in a City of Bike Paths
Every year Montreal suspends reality as Formula 1 takes over the city.
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The Artful Eye: Gerry Fisher’s Cinematographic Journey
The Established Collaborator By 1976, when Gerry Fisher began work on M Klein, he had already accumulated twenty seven film credits as Director of Photography, with this project marking his sixth collaboration with director Joseph Losey. Their professional relationship had evolved into a well-oiled machine, characterized by mutual understanding and respect that transcended the need…
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Montreal living: Triangle vs the Plateau
Comparing a new section of Montreal with the Plateau, an older and well loved neighborhood.
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Unfiltered Montreal
Montreal is a city that refuses to be reduced to picture postcard clichés. Here, the gritty dep and styled food-market, the narrow ruelles and the wide boulevards, the laughter and longing, all exist side by side, unposed and unrehearsed. Montreal Unfiltered is an invitation to witness the city as it truly breathes: raw, restless, and…
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Homage to Margot Capelier, Casting Director for M Klein
Margot Capelier was known and admired in French Cinema for being the first Casting Director in France, if not Europe. She was a poignant example of a person who put their heart into the profession, helping a lot of people, but remaining in the shadows herself.
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Exploring location shooting in Joseph Losey’s M Klein
Losey used thirty two different Paris locations in shooting M Klein. They added greatly to the realism of the film, but each location brought unique challenges and often there were problems.
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Rebels in class: The birth of Pilobolus Dance Theater
There aren’t many arts organizations that survive fifty years, but the energetic dance group Pilobolus has surpassed the half-century mark and is still going strong. That’s not to say that getting to fifty has been easy. Part of its secret in attaining longevity has been that since birth it’s had an audacity and questioning of…
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Joseph Losey’s film M Klein: A behind-the-scenes look
Part of a series on the making of the Losey film, M Klein (available on the Criterion Channel) Joseph Losey in Hollywood People often don’t fit into neat boxes. Joseph Losey defied easy classification. In the 1930s and 40s he was a young, breathtakingly handsome Hollywood director with an expanding stage and film reputation, known…
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The impossible miracle of Biblioteca Vasconcelos
Mexico City architecture has many highlights, but Biblioteca Vasconcelos is an unusually fanciful space floating 600,000 volumes off a roof suspension system.