Tuesday | November 22, 2005 9:00 pm

King and Country

Screening on Film

Directed by Joseph Losey.
With Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern.
UK, 1964, 35mm, black & white, 86 min.

Private Arthur Hamp (Courtenay), frustrated with three long years of trench warfare and shell-shocked after a particularly brutal attack, elects to walk home to England from the front. He is subsequently court-martialed; his assigned defender, Captain Hargreaves (Bogarde), slowly begins to understand the helplessness of Hamp and other enlisted men. Losey's characteristically subtle touches play on the "roles" assigned by the British class system (the film is a stage adaptation), employing a mildly Brechtian emphasis on theatrical artifice and reflexivity.

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The Complete Joseph Losey
Part Two

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Grand Illusions
The Cinema of World War I

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The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

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João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

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Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

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Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

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The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

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Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

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Once There Was History ... Andrzej Wajda at 100