"Red & Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist" Trailer

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.

Conversation with Paul Haggis

Paul Haggis (left) in Bologna

My conversation with writer and director Paul Haggis, recorded in Bologna on July 27,  2021.

The Cinema of George Stevens: A Dialogue Between Imogen Sara Smith & Ehsan Khoshbakht

George Stevens (standing, right) on the set of Giant

Video of a dialogue between Imogen Sara Smith and I about the cinema of George Stevens, recorded in Bologna, July 2021. — Ehsan Khoshbakht

Filmfarsi (2019)

World Premiere: July 26, Watershed Bristol

Read on The Guardian: How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history

The Shah of Iran on the Set of a George Cukor Film

The Shah of Iran and the Empress Farah visiting Fox Studio (probably) in 1962, dropping by the set on which George Cukor was directing his ill-fated Something's Got to Give, starring  Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. Martin and Monroe (with the latter the Shah rumored to have an affair) are not seen on this short and mute British Pathe newsreel, but Van Johnson, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, and Charisse are among those received by HRH!