Curated Retrospectives

Ehsan in Lisbon, September 2020. Photo by Mafalda Melo

Listing of past (since 2015 only), present and future retrospectives curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht


2024


"Viagens Pela Noite – O Mundo De Anatole Litvak", Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2024-January 2025

"Iranian New Wave: 1962-1979", Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, August 2024

"The Lady with the Torch: The Centenary of Columbia Pictures", Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, August 2024

A selection of films from this retrospective has so far toured Zurich, Copenhagen, Lausanne, Vienna.

"Journeys into Night: The World of Anatole Litvak", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 2024

"Symphonies in Black: Duke Ellington Shorts", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 2024

"L'architecture dans le cinéma muet", Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation, Paris, France, April-May 2024


2023

"Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979", Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, October-November 2023

"Imaginary Mexico: Henry King in Morelia", Morelia, Mexico, October 2023

"Close-Up on István Szabó", Close-Up Cinema, London, UK, July 2023

"Rouben Mamoulian: A Touch of Desire", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 2023

"An Unfinished Revolution: A Second Look at Iranian Cinema Before 1979", Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, Germany, May 2023

"Ballad of a Fatalist: Hugo Fregonese", Cinématheque Francaise, Paris, March-April 2023 [This is based on the Bologna retrospective otherwise not directly commissioned]

"Bricks and Mirrors: Iranian Cinema Revisited 1955-2015", Cinemateca, Lisbon, Portugal, February-March 2023

"Subversive Iranian Cinema", Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, February 2023


2022

"Earthly Songs: Ebrahim Golestan at 100", Viennale, Vienna, Austria, October 2022

"Hugo Fregonese: Man on the Run", Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, September 2022 [co-curated by Dave Kehr]

"Hugo Fregonese: The Drifter's Escape", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June-July 2022 [co-curated by Dave Kehr]

"Something to Live For: The Cinema of George Stevens", Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival, Greece, June 2022

"Forgotten Revolution: Iranian Cinema Before 1979", Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Denmark, February-March 2022


2021

"Forgotten Revolution: Iranian Cinema Before 1979", Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, December 2021

"Henry King", Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2021 [Though this programme was inspired by a 2019 retrospective held in Bologna, Ehsan was not directly responsible for it and programmers of the Cinemateket had modified the original selection of films.]

"Forgotten Revolution: Iranian Cinema Before 1979", Sinema Transtopia, Berlin, December 2021

"Something to Live For: The Cinema of George Stevens", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, July 2021


2020

"Guns for Hire: Frank Tuttle vs. Stuart Heisler", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, August 2020

"In Harm's Way: The Films of Majed Neisi", Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK, January-March 2020


2019

"Female Pioneers of American Cinema", Festival on Wheels, Ankara, November-December 2019

"Soul and Craft: A Portrait of Henry King", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, June 2019

"Jazz and Film", Stadtkino, Basel, Switzerland, March 2019 [collaborator/advisor only]

"Drifting Shadows: Masterpieces of Finnish Cinema", Filmhouse (Edinburgh) and Close-Up Film Centre (London), January-February 2019 [co-curated by Antti Alanen]

"Agony and Ecstasy: Visual Arts on Screen", Cineteca di Bologna, January 2019


2018

"Print the Legend", Festival on Wheels, Ankara, November 2018  [co-curated by Jonathan Rosenbaum]

"Immortal Imitation: John M. Stahl", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, June 2018

"Jazz and film", KAVI Cinematheque, Helsinki, February 2018


2017

"Early Kiarostami", Close-Up Film Centre, London, UK

"Tehran Noir: The Thrillers of Samuel Khachikian", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy June 2017 [co-curated by Behdad Amini, in collaboration with Kaveh Askari]


2016

"Golestan Film Studio: Between Poetry and Politics", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy June 2016

"Jazz Goes to the Movies", The Museums of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran


2015

"Jazz Goes to the Movies", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy June 2015 [co-curated by Jonathan Rosenbaum]

"A Simple Event: The Birth of Iranian New Wave", Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy June 2015

"A Panorama of Westerns", The Museums of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran


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