Locarno: David Lean, Carol Reed & Powell And Pressburger Titles Set For PostWar British Cinema Retrospective
deadline.comBritish postwar cinema will serve as the focus of the retrospective programme at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Locarno has teamed with the BFI National Archive, Cinémathèque suisse, and Studiocanal on the retrospective, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.
The program will span the work of well-known British filmmakers like David Lean, Carol Reed, and Powell and Pressburger to lesser-known directors like Seth Holt and Lance Comfort.
Women filmmakers working on British shores like Muriel Box, Wendy Toye, Margaret Tait, and Jill Craigie as well as American filmmakers exiled to the UK by the anti-Communist blacklist like Joseph Losey, Cy Endfield, and Edward Dmytryk will also feature.
Digital restorations and archival prints from the BFI National Archive will be projected in Locarno. The retrospective will be accompanied by an English-language book published by Les Éditions de l’Œil, edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, and featuring contributions from international writers.
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