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Jul 3, 2023 · The Driver's Seat runs to 100 text pages and is, my estimate, around 25,000 words, making it a novella to my mind. The Public Image was shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize in 1968 and Loitering with Intent repeated that feat in 1981. Technically, The Driver's Seat was also nominated, though in different circumstances.
As in her two late 60s films for Joseph Losey, Taylor in The Driver's Seat is both the apotheosis and the wreck of the grand Hollywood diva she once was. She plays - like Katharine Hepburn in Summertime or Vivien Leigh in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - a neurotic middle-aged woman adrift in Italy.
The Driver's Seat. A haunting, complex melodrama based on the best-selling Muriel Spark novel. Elizabeth Taylor, in one of her least-known performances, stars as a deranged, psychotic spinster looking for a man to whom she can give herself- completely. 99 IMDb 5.7 1 h 41 min 1975. 18+.
Sep 28, 2003 · the driver's seat r.i.p. miss elizabeth taylor. farewell to a true star!! FAREWELL TO A TRUE STAR!! The only reason to watch this movie is to admire the tenacity in which THIS HOLLYWOOD GODDESS OF THE SILVER SCREEN immerses herself in a role that is really beneath her acting talent & in the process manages to elevate THIS C-GRADE FILM ABOVE TRASH.
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Nov 21, 2018 · ABSTRACT. The Driver’s Seat is amongst the crème de la crème of Spark’s fictional works and it features one of her most memorable and enigmatic heroines. This essay begins by taking the riddles posed by Lise at face value and follows their at times horrific, at times hilarious terms and implications to their logical (and illogical) conclusion.
Jun 26, 2023 · Italy / West Germany 1974. Elizabeth Taylor stars as a troubled woman who, upon arriving in Rome, finds a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all. Never before released in the UK, The Driver’s Seat (aka Identikit) remains the most obscure, bizarre ...
Oct 31, 2022 · Coming from her hotel she shares a taxi with a lovely, older tourist ( Mona Washburne) and then Lise deliberately stuffs her own passport down behind the back seat of the cab, “where it will be safe.”. The two women witness the car bombing of a foreign dignitary and Lise is driven back to her hotel by a horny mechanic who unzips his ...
