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‘The Blacklist was a Plague’ — Locarno Retrospective Curator Ehsan Khoshbakht Talks About What We Can Learn from the Intolerance of the Past

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Variety reports that the Locarno Film Festival is screening a retrospective titled 'Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist,' curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht. The program examines the Hollywood Blacklist through films by the directors, writers, and actors who were targeted during that era.

Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/blacklist-locarno-re...

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