“Great Expectations”: British Postwar Cinema Gets Spotlight With Locarno Film Festival Retrospective
"British cinema made in the studio system managed to blend popular entertainment with some of the most stylistically innovative forms, elevating it to the status of art," says curator Ehsan Khoshbakht ...
The world was changing in the 1960s, and so was the face of movie stardom. But who among the decade’s most popular movie stars are actually the greatest of all time? While the 1960s are defined by ...
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Locarno 'Peeping Tom' ©1960 Michael Powell (Theatre) Ltd.- All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Studiocanal. British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the ...
A movie still from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey' starring Gary Lockwood. The 1960s were a decade of change in America and around the world. Minority rights were ...
An Inside Look at Locarno’s British Postwar Cinema Retrospective, Including a Former Festival Winner
Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht explains his selection, the roles of ruins and children in 1945-1960 films, and how "popular cinema was systematically attacked and destroyed by British film critics" back in ...
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An Inside Look at Locarno's British Postwar Cinema Retrospective, Including a Former Festival Winner
If you attend the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running Aug. 6-16, and you're looking from something more than the latest art-house discoveries the fest will screen, keep in mind that ...
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