In 1955, Ealing Studios released The Ladykillers, a darkly comic tale about a gang of criminals whose bank robbery gets ...
Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...
Billy Wilder’s cynical streak is a mile wide in this story of muckraker journalist Chuck Tatum, who plots an amoral scheme to take advantage of a collapsed mine incident in the deserts of New Mexico.
“Great Expectations”: British Postwar Cinema Gets Spotlight With Locarno Film Festival Retrospective
“Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960” is the theme of this year’s Locarno Film Festival Retrospective, unveiled on Monday. It follows the festival’s 2024 look back at Columbia ...
Tight Little Island. A British comedy, almost perfect of its kind, which applies character insight and cinematic ingenuity to the story of a whisky famine on a rugged Hebridean island (TIME, Jan. 23).
Adam and Evalyn (Rank; Universal-International) is a British movie cut to an old Hollywood pattern—not a very good pattern by the standards of moviemaking on either side of the Atlantic. A dashing ...
“Great Expectations”: British Postwar Cinema Gets Spotlight With Locarno Film Festival Retrospective
"British cinema made in the studio system managed to blend popular entertainment with some of the most stylistically innovative forms, elevating it to the status of art," says curator Ehsan Khoshbakht ...
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