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The Locarno Film Festival will big a movie retrospective centered connected nan Cold War-era Hollywood Blacklist this period astatine nan Academy Museum successful Los Angeles.
Titled Red & Black – Hollywood Left and nan Blacklist, the retrospective has been curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht.
The programme will span fabrication films, documentaries, newsreels, and shorts from nan U.S., Britain, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, and Argentina. Major manufacture figures from nan era included successful nan retrospective see John Garfield, Joseph Losey, Dalton Trumbo, Dorothy Parker, Richard Wright, and Charles Chaplin.
Like past retrospectives hosted by Locarno, this programme will beryllium accompanied by a broad book featuring contributions from world movie scholars and critics. A podcast, written by Khoshbakht, will besides beryllium published.
One of nan darkest chapters successful American moviemaking history, nan Hollywood Blacklist was a play of governmental persecution starting successful 1947, wherever studios banned individuals suspected of Communist ties.
“If you insist connected calling classical Hollywood a ‘dream factory,’ you person besides to spot really that conception was hammered into pieces by immoderate of nan astir politically progressive figures successful nan history of American cinema crossed nan much than forty films brought together successful this retrospective,” Khoshbakht said successful a statement.
“It is nan timeliest 1 I person worked connected successful my life. The imaginative ways of incorporating governmental consciousness into film, and nan tragic consequences of that governmental determination, shape nan thrilling communicative of this programme, offering caller angles connected nan witch-hunts of nan McCarthy era.”
The 79th Locarno Film Festival will return spot from 5 to 15 August 2026.
