Locarno Film Festival’s 2025 Retrospective Highlights Post-War Britain in a Showcase ‘About the British Character,’ Says Programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht
variety.comJohn Bleasdale Guest Contributor 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 programming and for many festival goers is a standout and popular attraction.
Boasting fresh restorations and rare screenings of difficult to get prints, past seasons have been devoted to filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk or studios such as last year’s retrospective, The Lady with the Torch, which celebrated the centenary of Columbia Pictures.
Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960 is organized by the LOcarno Film Festival in partnership with the BFI National Archive and the Cinémathèque Suisse, with the support of Studiocanal.
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