It celebrates the "gorgeous, radical work" of the British film-making partnership of Michael ... a director who emerged in the era when gritty realism "supplanted the romantic idealism of Powell ...

sprawling film, corralled by director David Hinton. Though the masterpieces made by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger at the height of their big-screen, Technicolor powers were visually ...

David was a great cinephile who saved many British films from extinction, including Michael Powell ... of the film”. The scenes in the chorus girls’ dressing rooms are certainly among the most ...

A Matter of Life and Death took the imaginative daring of jointly credited writer-producer-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger to new heights. David Niven plays a British airman who ...

An Englishman, Powell became friends with a Jewish Hungarian writer, Pressburger, in 1939 through film ... images as he does. He often discusses his appreciation for the British filmmakers Michael ...

This is a two and a quarter-hour film of Scorsese teaching his audience the history, technique, and --in his words, the genius of this 20 th Century British ... s work. Michael Powell and Emeric ...