“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 ...
Martin Scorsese has made some of the most famous gangster movies ever, but he doesn’t just watch American crime films. He also has a real love for British gangster stories. During a talk with director ...
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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