Any list of the best British films ever made, however long, will have dozens of omissions to offend just about everybody.

"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 ...

The program promises “a tribute” to British cinema from that period that paints “a rich and diverse picture of life in the postwar years as reflected in British popular cinema.” As such, audiences can ...

A movie still from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction film '2001: A Space Odyssey' starring Gary Lockwood. The 1960s were a decade of change in America and around the world. Minority rights were ...

August’s Locarno Film Festival will go British with its latest retrospective: Great Expectations: British Post-War Cinema, 1945-1960. The retrospective forms a major strand of the film festival’s ...

Terence Stamp, the London-born actor whose stunning looks helped define the 1960s film scene — but who was best known to Americans as General Zod in the early “Superman” films — died Sunday. He was 87 ...

Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht explains his selection, the roles of ruins and children in 1945-1960 films, and how "popular cinema was systematically attacked and destroyed by British film critics" back in ...

If you attend the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running Aug. 6-16, and you're looking from something more than the latest art-house discoveries the fest will screen, keep in mind that ...