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 ...

B-movies thrived in the 1960s, with classics like Night of the Living Dead and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! working wonders with modest budgets.

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 ...

The 2025 Locarno Film Festival unveiled a retrospective of British postwar cinema, "Great Expectations," with movies from Powell and Pressburger.

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 ...

By addressing these issues head-on, Alfie reflected the changing social norms and the burgeoning sexual revolution of 1960s British society.

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 ...

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 ...