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Locarno Film Festival’s 2025 Retrospective Highlights Post-War Britain in a Showcase ‘About the British Character,’ Says Programmer Ehsan Khoshbakht
Highlights take in lesser-known films by well-known directors so we have an Alexander McKendrick’s ‘Mandy.’
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. Muriel Box answers that question in “The Happy Family,” which is about the renovation and replanning of the South Bank right before the Festival of Britain. But there’s an ongoing migration of great talents, first from Central and Eastern Europe to Britain, and then even from America, from Hollywood to this country because of the Blacklist: Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, and Cy Endfield.
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