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Reginald Ernest Beck is a Director, Scriptwriter and Editor British born on 5 february 1902 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Reginald Beck was a British film editor with forty-nine credits. He was born in Russia, but his family emigrated to Britain while still a child. He began working in the film industry in 1927 when he joined Gainsborough Pictures before going on to work on quota quickies at Wembley Studios. He later worked with a number of directors including Carol Reed, David Lean, Laurence Olivier and Joseph Losey. In his obituary, Anthony Sloman wrote of the seventeen films that Beck edited with director Losey, "Their professional and personal relationship was regarded as one of the great screen partnerships".
Beck worked with Laurence Olivier on Henry V (1944) and on Hamlet (1948). Sloman writes, "above all, it is for his immense contributions to Henry V and Hamlet that the British film industry is forever in his debt."
Reginald Beck est né en Russie, mais sa famille émigre en Grande-Bretagne en 1915. En 1927, il rejoint Gainsborough Pictures avant de continuer à travailler sur des "quota quickies" aux Fountain Studios de Wembley. Par la suite, il travaille avec des réalisateurs comme Carol Reed, David Lean, Laurence Olivier ou Joseph Losey.
Collaboration avec Laurence Olivier
Au début de sa carrière, Beck travaille sur deux films de Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944) et Hamlet (1948). Olivier y joue les rôles titre en même temps qu'il les dirige, et Beck lui servit de conseiller car c'étaient ses premiers films. Dans la nécrologie de Reginald Beck pour The Independent, Sloman écrit que l'industrie du cinéma britannique a une dette éternelle envers lui pour son immense contribution à Henry V et Hamlet.
Collaboration avec Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey émigre au Royaume-Uni au début des années 1950 après avoir été mis sur liste noire par la Commission de la Chambre sur les activités antiaméricaines. Beck et Losey collaborent sur 16 films, de Gipsy (1958) à Steaming (1985), leur dernier film à tous les deux. Anthony Sloman considère le film Accident (1967) comme leur chef d'œuvre commun.
Don Giovanni (1979), un de leurs derniers films ensemble, sera l'occasion pour Reginald Beck d'être récompensé d'un César, ce qui sera d'ailleurs la seule récompense de sa longue carrière.
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(1971)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 february 1902 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Death 12 july 1992 (at 90 years) at England (United-kingdom)
Birth 5 february 1902 at Saint Petersburg (Russie)
Death 12 july 1992 (at 90 years) at England (United-kingdom)
Reginald Beck was a British film editor with forty-nine credits. He was born in Russia, but his family emigrated to Britain while still a child. He began working in the film industry in 1927 when he joined Gainsborough Pictures before going on to work on quota quickies at Wembley Studios. He later worked with a number of directors including Carol Reed, David Lean, Laurence Olivier and Joseph Losey. In his obituary, Anthony Sloman wrote of the seventeen films that Beck edited with director Losey, "Their professional and personal relationship was regarded as one of the great screen partnerships".
Beck worked with Laurence Olivier on Henry V (1944) and on Hamlet (1948). Sloman writes, "above all, it is for his immense contributions to Henry V and Hamlet that the British film industry is forever in his debt."
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DébutsReginald Beck est né en Russie, mais sa famille émigre en Grande-Bretagne en 1915. En 1927, il rejoint Gainsborough Pictures avant de continuer à travailler sur des "quota quickies" aux Fountain Studios de Wembley. Par la suite, il travaille avec des réalisateurs comme Carol Reed, David Lean, Laurence Olivier ou Joseph Losey.
Collaboration avec Laurence Olivier
Au début de sa carrière, Beck travaille sur deux films de Laurence Olivier, Henry V (1944) et Hamlet (1948). Olivier y joue les rôles titre en même temps qu'il les dirige, et Beck lui servit de conseiller car c'étaient ses premiers films. Dans la nécrologie de Reginald Beck pour The Independent, Sloman écrit que l'industrie du cinéma britannique a une dette éternelle envers lui pour son immense contribution à Henry V et Hamlet.
Collaboration avec Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey émigre au Royaume-Uni au début des années 1950 après avoir été mis sur liste noire par la Commission de la Chambre sur les activités antiaméricaines. Beck et Losey collaborent sur 16 films, de Gipsy (1958) à Steaming (1985), leur dernier film à tous les deux. Anthony Sloman considère le film Accident (1967) comme leur chef d'œuvre commun.
Don Giovanni (1979), un de leurs derniers films ensemble, sera l'occasion pour Reginald Beck d'être récompensé d'un César, ce qui sera d'ailleurs la seule récompense de sa longue carrière.
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The Long Dark Hall (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Reginald Ernest Beck, Anthony Bushell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Ronald Simpson, Raymond Huntley, William Squire, Ballard Berkeley
Rating61%
Scriptwriter
The Laughter of Fools (1933)
, 47minutesDirected by Adrian Brunel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors D. A. Clarke-Smith, Derrick De Marney, Eliot Makeham, Patricia Paterson, Dorothy Vernon
Editor
Steaming (1985)
, 1h36Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors, Brenda Bruce, Felicity Dean
Rating58%
Les conversations intimes et les problèmes quotidiens d'un groupe de femmes fréquentant régulièrement un bain turc dans un quartier populaire de Londres.
Don Giovanni (1979)
, 3h4Directed by Joseph Losey
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Ruggero Raimondi, Lorin Maazel
Rating75%
After an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Donna Anna (soprano Edda Moser), Don Giovanni (baritone Ruggero Raimondi) kills her father Il Commendatore (bass John Macurdy). The next morning, Giovanni meets Donna Elvira (soprano Kiri Te Kanawa), a woman he previously seduced and abandoned. Later, Giovanni happens upon the preparations for a peasant wedding and tries to seduce the bride-to-be Zerlina (mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza), but his ambition is frustrated by Donna Elvira.
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
, 1h56Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality
Actors Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Béatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan
Rating60%
Elizabeth Fielding, femme d'un riche écrivain anglais, rencontre, Thomas, un jeune homme aux activités louches, lors d'un séjour thermal à Baden-Baden. Celui-ci la suit jusqu'en Angleterre et réussit à se faire inviter par Lewis, le mari d'Elizabeth. Ce dernier soupçonne celle-ci d'être l'amante de Thomas. Elizabeth imagine, à son tour, une liaison entre Lewis, son conjoint, et Catherine. Elizabeth fugue et part avec Thomas vers la Côte d'Azur. Avec la complicité du jeune amant, Lewis Fielding récupère son épouse.
Galileo (1975)
, 2h25Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Chaim Topol, Edward Fox, Georgia Brown, John Gielgud, Tom Conti, Margaret Leighton
Rating65%
The film closely follows the "American" version of Brecht's play Galileo. In 1609 Galileo is a mathematics professor in Padua, Italy. While his salary is inadequate, he possesses the freedom to pursue controversial scientific studies under the protection of the Venetian republic. Part of his work involves the use of a telescope, a relatively new scientific instrument brought from the Netherlands. Using the telescope, Galileo seeks to test the theories put forth by Nicolaus Copernicus that place the sun – and not the Earth – at the center of universe. As his research progress, Galileo accepts a more prestigious academic position in Florence, Italy. But his new position does not come with the government protection he enjoyed in Venice, and his friends in the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church refuse to come to his aid when he is summoned before the Inquisition.
A Doll's House (1973)
, 1h46Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig, David Warner, Anna Wing
Rating59%
The main character of this film is Nora Helmer, a simple woman married to a working man, the straight but authoritarian Torvald. Years before, they married out of love. Now, between Nora's desire for freedom and Torvald's strictness, serious sexual friction is threatening their relationship, including actions from their past which could lead to tragedy.
Something to Hide (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Alastair Reid, Alastair Reid
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Finch, Shelley Winters, Colin Blakely, John Stride, Linda Hayden, Harold Goldblatt
Rating56%
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical
Themes Assassinat, Politique, Political films
Actors Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Jean Desailly, Enrico Maria Salerno
Rating56%
Exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929, Leon Trotsky travels from Turkey to France to Norway, before arriving in Mexico in January 1937. The film begins in Mexico City in 1940, during a May Day celebration. Trotsky has not escaped the attention of the Soviet ruler of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, who sends out an assassin named Frank Jacson. The killer decides to infiltrate Trotsky's house by befriending one of the young communists in Trotsky's circle.
Rangi's Catch (1972)
, 1h12Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Temuera Morrison, Ian Mune, Don Selwyn
Rating54%
Four children on a remote sheep station in the South Island of New Zealand hear of the escape of two convicts, and realise that the crooks are responsible for burgling their house while they were swimming. They pursue the crooks, and despite being detained by the police help catch the crooks and their stolen money hidden in a cave, so are rewarded. They return to their idyllic rural existence
The Go-Between (1971)
, 1h58Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Le thème des vacances
Actors Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Edward Fox, Dominic Guard, Michael Redgrave
Rating71%
The story follows a young boy named Leo Colston (Dominic Guard), who in the year 1900 is invited by a school friend, Marcus Maudsley (Richard Gibson), to spend the summer holidays at a Norfolk country house occupied by his family. While Leo is there, Marcus is taken sick, and Leo finds himself becoming a messenger (go-between) carrying messages between Marcus's older sister, Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie), and a farmer neighbour, Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) with whom she is secretly in love. However, her parents want her to become engaged to the owner of the house and estate, Hugh, Viscount Trimingham (played by Edward Fox). A heatwave leads to a thunderstorm, which coincides with Leo's birthday party and the climax of the film, when Marion's mother and Leo find Marion and Burgess making love in an outbuilding. This event has a long-lasting impact on Leo, and Burgess shoots himself with his own gun in his farmhouse kitchen.
Figures in a Landscape (1970)
, 1h40Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell, Henry Woolf, Christopher Malcolm, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Robert East
Rating64%
The film opens with two men running across a beach at dawn, it also appears that their hands are tied behind their backs. After several shots of a helicopter frantically searching the landscape, it becomes apparent that the two men are escapees of some kind. It is later revealed that their names are MacConnachie and Ansell. The two continue running across barren land, trying to escape the sight of the helicopter. MacConnachie continuously berates Ansell as they run, showing that he is the leader, more or less.
Boom! (1968)
, 1h53Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Joanna Shimkus, Noël Coward, Michael Dunn, Romolo Valli
Rating55%
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Angelo Del Morte" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".
Secret Ceremony (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow, Robert Mitchum, Peggy Ashcroft, Pamela Brown, Robert Douglas
Rating61%
Leonora, a prostitute, is despondent over the death of her daughter. Cenci, a lonely young woman, follows Leonora to the cemetery and strikes up a conversation with her, inviting her home.
Accident (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig
Rating67%
The story centers on a married Oxford professor, Stephen, who is experiencing a mid-life crisis. The world changes for him when he meets Anna, a beautiful young student, who is engaged to another of his students, William. Following a car accident outside Stephen's home in which William is killed and Anna is severely disoriented, she is obliged to remain with Stephen although his wife is out of town. The events preceding the accident are told in flashbacks. While Stephen believes that he is orchestrating a tryst with Anna that will leave both his wife and William in the dark, he soon discovers that Anna is playing a game of her own.