"There was a period, in the decade after World War II, when British films achieved without fanfare a broad viewership among Americans." Geoffrey O'Brien on the terrific Locarno retrospective of postwar British cinema in @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...- "The intention, laid out in a profusely illustrated companion volume edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, was to assemble a collective national self-portrait of sorts, from the end of the war to the emergence of Britain’s New Wave at the end of the 1950s."Dec 3, 2025 09:31
- "(The book includes thirty-eight essays focusing on salient themes including women filmmakers, the prominence of children in films of the period, the influence of film noir, and the work of Americans exiled by the blacklist, along with profiles of the directors in the series.)"
