Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “ A Gay Old Time .” In this week’s column, with late closeted film star Dirk Bogarde in the news, let’s revisit one of his great roles, 1963’s The Servant ...

The late Dirk Bogarde was a celebrated British actor who ... film to use the word “homosexual”) to the subtextual The Servant to 1971’s Death in Venice, which is all about queer desire ...

Nosferatu' writer/director Robert Eggers visits Criterion Closet, selecting 'Death in Venice,' 'Freaks,' and more. Watch the video here.

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the late queen herself was not officially told for nearly nine years.

The home secretary and his most senior civil servant were informed ... spies Burgess and Maclean and flee to Russia Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a ...

Many of Dirk Bogarde's best performances on screen involved the use of significant pauses: the enigmatic look on his face as he regards the sleeping James Fox in the first scene of Joseph Losey's The ...

The home secretary and his most senior civil servant were informed ... spies Burgess and Maclean and flee to Russia Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a ...

FILM star Dirk Bogarde was investigated by spies at MI5 as they thought he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the Russians, newly-declassified files show. Documents released ...

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