UK 2024, 131 min, Dir: David Hinton
Martin Scorsese reflects on the influence of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose decades-long collaboration led to a series of classics that made the duo a crucial part of British cinema. Producing, writing, and directing, Powell and Pressburger created some of great classics of the British golden age including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. This film will be an unparalleled exploration of their genius. Brought to life with a treasure trove of rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger, and Scorsese, the story will be told using diaries, audio recordings, home movies, personal snapshots and of course the films themselves.
In the words of Scorsese their films were “grand, poetic, wise, adventurous, headstrong, enraptured by beauty, deeply romantic, and completely uncompromising.”
