A few black-and-white photos of Locarnos first editions hung from the walls of the hotel that hosted me there for five days this month. Long before it began to stretch across several venues around town-none more iconic than the Piazza Grande, which every night turns into an 8,000-seat open air theater-the fest originally took place in the garden of Locarnos Grand Hotel. This is where those pictures were taken. It is August 22, 1946, and theyre watching Giacomo Gentilomos My Sun-a crowd-pleaser w...
A few black-and-white photos of Locarnos first editions hung from the walls of the hotel that hosted me there for five days this month. Long before it began to stretch across several venues around town-none more iconic than the Piazza Grande, which every night turns into an 8,000-seat open air theater-the fest originally took place in the garden of Locarnos Grand Hotel. This is where those pictures were taken. It is August 22, 1946, and theyre watching Giacomo Gentilomos My Sun-a crowd-pleaser w...
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