San Sebastian Film Festival 2017

Retrospective showing all of the director's films and shorts, including those below.

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Modesty Blaise Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise and Mr Klein
Accident (Country: UK; Year: 1967; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Harold Pinter, based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley; Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York)
A happily-married academic develops an obsession with one of his students.
The Criminal (Concrete Jungle) (Country: UK; Year: 1960; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Alun Owen, Jimmy Sangster; Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad, Jill Bennett, Rupert Davies, Laurence Naismith, John Van Eyssen, Noel Willman, Derek Francis, Redmond Phillips, Kenneth J Warren, Patrick Magee, Robert Adams, Kenneth Cope, Tom Bell)
A freshly released convict aims for a fresh heist.
Eve (Eva) (Country: France; Year: 1962; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Hugo Butler, James Hadley Chase, Evan Jones; Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, James Villiers, Riccardo Garrone, Lisa Gastoni, Checco Rissone, Enzo Fiermonte, Nona Medici, Roberto Paoletti, Alex Revidis)
Working-class Welsh writer falls foul of a femme fatale.
The Go-Between (Country: UK; Year: 1971; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Harold Pinter, based on the novel by LP Hartley; Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Richard Gibson, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough,)
When a youngster goes to stay with a wealthy friend, he finds himself caught up as a messenger boy for a clandestine affair.
Mr Klein (Monsieur Klein) (Country: France, Italy; Year: 1976; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi; Stars: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Jean Bouise, Suzanne Flon, Massimo Girotti, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Aumont, Roland Bertin, Jean Champion, Etienne Chicot, Magali Clément, Gérard Jugnot, Hermine Karagheuz)
A man who is taking advantage of his fleeing Jewish neighbours in the Second World War becomes obsessed with his Jewish 'double'.
Accident Accident
Accident and The Servant
Modesty Blaise (Country: UK; Year: 1966; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Evan Jones; Stars: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews)
Sometime secret agent, sometime thief Modesty Blaise is set on the trail of stolen diamonds in this comic strip adaptation.
The Prowler (Country: US; Year: 1951; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Robert Thoeren, Hans Wilhelm, Dalton Trumbo, Hugo Butler; Stars: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy, Madge Blake, Wheaton Chambers, Robert Osterloh, Sherry Hall, Louise Lorimer, Herbert Anderson, Louise Bates, Jack Baxley, Benny Burt, Steve Carruthers)
When Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.
The Servant (Country: UK; Year: 1963; Director: Joseph Losey; Writer: Harold Pinter, Robin Maugham; Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey, Richard Vernon, Ann Firbank, Doris Nolan, Patrick Magee, Jill Melford, Alun Owen, Harold Pinter, Derek Tansley, Brian Phelan, Hazel Terry)
Psychological thriller about a servant who begins to manipulate his employer.
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