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Ehsan Khoshbakht on Locarno’s Columbia Retrospective ‘The Lady With the Torch’: ‘This Film Will Never Play Again in My Lifetime’
Ehsan Khoshbakht discusses Locarno's once-in-a-lifetime Columbia retrospective.
With 44 films from well-known titles such as Orson Welles’s “The Lady from Shanghai” (1947) and Fritz Lang’s “The Big Heat” (1953) to more obscure gems like Frank Borzage’s “Man’s Castle” (1933) and Earl McEvoy’s “The Killer that Stalked New York” (1950), curator Ehsan Khoshbakht has created what he calls an “unofficial history” of the studio in its heyday, as controversial president Harry Cohn dragged Columbia from poverty row to Academy success. Khoshbakht: Very recently, I was reading the the book of interviews with the late Michel Ciment, and he was praising Locarno, saying that he was on the jury here with Abbas Kiarostami. If you go and watch “Washington Merry-Go-Round” (1932), “The Undercover Man” (1949) and “All the King’s Men” (1949) which we’re showing back-to-back; can you get a more accurate picture of America than these three films?
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