Dalton Trumbo (left) and John Howard Lawson campaigning before being sent to prison in 1950This interview with me was conducted by Georg Szalai for The Hollywood Reporter, and you can read the HR version here. Below is my own edit, which re…
Body and SoulBrief notes on all the titles to be screened in Locarno as part of the Red & Black retrospective. — EK.Symphony of Swing (Joseph Henabery, 1939)A groovy jazz short featuring sumptuous compositions and trick shots of Artie Shaw
The Hollywood 19 These questions were sent to me by email by the Italian critic Maurizio Porro. If I have understood correctly, he used parts of my responses in his Corriere della Sera article on the forthcoming Hollywood Blacklist retrospe…
Screening of Guy Maddin's Careful at Sala Scorsese I was interviewed by Spanish journalist David Pardillos Rodríguez for Infobae España via email. I share my responses here. — EK- Please introduce yourself to our readers who may not know yo…
Red and Black: Hollywood Left and the BlacklistEdited by Ehsan KhoshbakhtPublished by Les éditions de l'oeilOut in late July 2026 | Pre-order here (Shipped from August)In the period now known as the McCarthy era, a climate of fear bordering…
I have already shared news about Red and Black, a forthcoming programme on the Hollywood Left/leftism and the blacklist/McCarthyism, which will take place at the Locarno Film Festival from 5–15 August. (Previous posts included the accompany…
Tony Rayns in Bologna in 2018Il Cinema Ritrovato joins the international film community in mourning the great British film critic, historian, programmer, and lifelong champion of Asian cinema, Tony Rayns, whose passing was announced today.T…
This project encompasses my curatorial work, including a retrospective of more than 50 films at Locarno, a book published in Paris, and a podcast recorded in London, all three on Hollywood radicals and the ensuing blacklist.
Young Frankenstein turned 52; Mel Brookes turned 100; we turned 40. We're still the youngest."If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing," I once heard King Vidor say in a cameo appearance. This year in Bologna, we certainly took him at his
Behind the scene of episode 1, feat. Duke EllingtonJazz 625: Music Giants on the Small ScreenAn illustrated talk by Ehsan Khoshbakht at Close-Up Cinema on July 20Its title alludes to the new 625-line broadcasting technology, which provided
Jazz 625: Music Giants on the Small Screen An illustrated talk by Ehsan Khoshbakht at Close-Up Cinema on July 20 Its title alludes to the new 625-line broadcasting technology, which provided higher image quality. Jazz 625 captured the excit…
This television documentary by Richard Schickel plays at Il Cinema Ritrovato on June 17, 2026. — EK“Kiss me in my mouth as if we are lovers,” a 76-year-old Barbara Stanwyck – still provocatively breaking taboos – tells a priest (Richard Cha…