Pioneering horrors like Psycho and ultra-violent Westerns like The Wild Bunch are among the most groundbreaking and intense ...
“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 ...
Locarno 'Peeping Tom' ©1960 Michael Powell (Theatre) Ltd.- All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Studiocanal. British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the ...
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 ...
The old ways were on the way out in the 1960s movie world. The cynical noirs and escapist epics were slowing down, replaced by ambitious formal experiments like those found in the French New Wave.
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 ...
“Great Expectations”: British Postwar Cinema Gets Spotlight With Locarno Film Festival Retrospective
“Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960” is the theme of this year’s Locarno Film Festival Retrospective, unveiled on Monday. It follows the festival’s 2024 look back at Columbia ...
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