The 1960s saw many all-timer Oscar Best Picture winners, from Lawrence of Arabia to West Side Story, but which of these 10 ...
“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 ...
Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody.
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 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 ...
Every decade of martial arts cinema offers something special, with the 1960s being a particularly formative time for the genre. As a period where future stars and acclaimed filmmakers were starting to ...
“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 ...
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