“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 ...
Locarno 'Peeping Tom' ©1960 Michael Powell (Theatre) Ltd.- All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Studiocanal. British postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Flame over India (Rank; 20th Century-Fox). The time is 1905, the place is India’s wild northwest frontier, and the situation is jolly awkward. There in an isolated outpost sits a smallish British ...
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