The 1960s were a pretty revolutionary time across society, politics, and culture — cinema, of course, was no exception. The decade shattered conventions driven by the collapse of old systems, cultural ...
“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 ...
Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody. When you consider the 100-plus years at our disposal, 50 choices are really ...
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 ...
In Punch magazine during the 1960s, the weekly film reviews were accompanied with evocative illustrations by cartoonist Michael Ffolkes, whose deft drawings cleverly captured the spirit of many ...
Terence Stamp, the London-born actor whose stunning looks helped define the 1960s film scene — but who was best known to Americans as General Zod in the early “Superman” films — died Sunday. He was 87 ...
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