The Locarno Film Festival will host a film retrospective centered on the Cold War-era Hollywood Blacklist during this year’s edition, which runs August 5 to 15.
Titled Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, the retrospective has been curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.
The programme will span fiction films, documentaries, newsreels, and shorts from the U.S., Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, and Argentina. Major industry figures from the era included in the retrospective include John Garfield, Joseph Losey, Dalton Trumbo, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, and Charles Chaplin.
Like past retrospectives hosted by Locarno, this programme will be accompanied by a comprehensive book featuring contributions from international film scholars and critics. A podcast, written by Khoshbakht, will also be published.
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