“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 ...
An Inside Look at Locarno’s British Postwar Cinema Retrospective, Including a Former Festival Winner
The program promises “a tribute” to British cinema from that period that paints “a rich and diverse picture of life in the postwar years as reflected in British popular cinema.” As such, audiences can ...
If you were to picture a classic world-cinema location that shimmered with erotic promise, your mind might not immediately turn to the shopping parade on Shenley Road in Borehamwood. But the 1970s was ...
Gill Jamieson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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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