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Jul 15, 2024 · The films of Powell and Pressburger, the directing-screenwriting duo known as the Archers, has been an abiding polestar for Scorsese, who befriended Powell late in life.
Jul 12, 2024 · Screenplay by Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland. With Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook. 35mm courtesy Park Circus. 123 min. “This deft propaganda film, in which a stranded U-boat crew endure a perilous Canadian odyssey en route to the neutral USA, was Pressburger’s attempt to outshine Goebbels.
6 days ago · Screenplay by Emeric Pressburger. With Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson. 35mm courtesy BFI. 92 min. “A playful espionage thriller in the Hitchcockian vein, Powell and Pressburger’s provocative second collaboration captures the uneasy atmosphere of a wartime London plunged into darkness by the blackouts, all delivered with a noir-ish ...
4 days ago · The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Jul 9, 2024 · Directed by David Hinton and presented on screen by an irresistably effusive Scorsese, the new documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is essentially a cinematic love letter from Scorsese to these two men.
Jul 4, 2024 · The pair released at least one feature film every year between 1939 and 1951, mostly based on original screenplays by Pressburger. Pressburger was constantly working through new ideas and continued this until his death in 1988.
Jul 12, 2024 · At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” Martin Scorsese recounts how he first encountered the works of the legendary filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as a child under perhaps the worst conditions imaginable — on his family’s black-and-white television in substandard and edited ...
