Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody.
“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 ...
Movies in the 1960s marked a major turning point in cinematic history, as traditional picture formulas were sidelined in favor of more daring storytelling, social and political commentary, and ...
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 ...
Trigger Warning: This article contains references to an individual's death. Terence Stamp, the British actor who rose to fame in the 1960s and later became known worldwide for his role as General Zod ...
August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
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