Locarno Retrospective Titled ‘Red and Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist’ Will Focus on ‘Fierce Artistic Resistance’

Hollywood Blacklist To Be Examined As Part Of Locarno Film Retrospective

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 fro…

Locarno Retrospective Titled ‘Red and Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist’ Will Focus on ‘Fierce Artistic Resistance’

The Locarno Film Festival’s upcoming edition will feature an extensive retro focused on the infamous Hollywood Blacklist, one of the U.S. entertainment industry’s darkest chapters. Titled “Red and Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist,” the timely retro — which is being unveiled on Thursday at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles — is curated by Locarno’s Ehsan Khoshbakht, who is also the co-director of Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato Festival. Loc…

Chaplin, Trumbo, Red Scare! Locarno Film Fest Sets “Hollywood Left and the Blacklist” Retrospective

”The imaginative ways of incorporating political consciousness into film, and the tragic consequences of that political determination, form the thrilling story of this program, offering new angles on the witch hunts of the McCarthy era.”