Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
Michael Powell
- Self
- (archive footage)
Emeric Pressburger
- Self
- (archive footage)
Brigitte Bardot
- Self - Actress
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Neva Carr-Glynn
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
David Frost
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Deborah Kerr
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Jerry Lewis
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
James Mason
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Arthur Miller
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Helen Mirren
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Queen Elizabeth II
- Self - Her Royal Highness
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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Featured review
This isn't the first time that Martin Scorsese has paid homage to his cinematic heroes, Powell & Pressburger. The BBC has broadcast the legendary New Yorker talking about this brilliant partnership and I'm pretty sure said broadcast awakened my own enthusiasm for their movies. But this, Made in England, is a final, richer expression of love, from a director in his dotage, for his great forebears. It even shows shot by shot examples of where Scorsese believes his own movies are influenced by The Archers' seminal example.
We learn how Powell was an English director who cut his teeth on grand, silent cinema productions made in France, and Pressburger was an emigre Hungarian Jew fleeing the Nazis, his head full of ideas for stories. Their meeting was a meeting of minds and ambition, and it led to a sequence of brilliant masterpieces, mostly appreciated, but not all appreciated, by the audiences and critics. Their films began during wartime and had to receive approval from The Ministry of Information. Scorsese describes how bold P&P were, even in their propagandist projects. He speaks lovingly of the impact P&P movies had upon him and his friends, even when they could only be seen in grainy b/w on television, sometimes cut to satisfy the prudery of the day. There was an undeniable magic to it.
Powell and Pressburger were like the Lennon & McCartney of cinema, a short-lived but mutually inspiring partnership. That's my simile by the way, not Scorsese's.
Made in England shows plenty from their best known movies, and clips from various others I'd never heard of, including a tasty little drama called The Small Back Room. Powell, once his partnership with Pressburger was over, made Peeping Tom, denigrated in its day, acclaimed as a masterpiece more recently. "But when do the English ever appreciate their great men?" asks Powell towards the end of the documentary. It's an old problem. One is not a prophet in one's own country. Even the greatest artists can't guarantee financing when the moneymen are merely bean counters.
I found it very moving, hearing the story of how the young Scorsese went in search of his hero (Powell), rescued him from obscurity, and brought him back into the world of clapperboards, gaffers and script editing. Theirs was a friendship born of mutual respect, as indeed was that of Powell and Pressburger. Love and respect. How much we need these things, ever onward, hither and yon.
Please go and see this movie. Few will. Be one of the few.
We learn how Powell was an English director who cut his teeth on grand, silent cinema productions made in France, and Pressburger was an emigre Hungarian Jew fleeing the Nazis, his head full of ideas for stories. Their meeting was a meeting of minds and ambition, and it led to a sequence of brilliant masterpieces, mostly appreciated, but not all appreciated, by the audiences and critics. Their films began during wartime and had to receive approval from The Ministry of Information. Scorsese describes how bold P&P were, even in their propagandist projects. He speaks lovingly of the impact P&P movies had upon him and his friends, even when they could only be seen in grainy b/w on television, sometimes cut to satisfy the prudery of the day. There was an undeniable magic to it.
Powell and Pressburger were like the Lennon & McCartney of cinema, a short-lived but mutually inspiring partnership. That's my simile by the way, not Scorsese's.
Made in England shows plenty from their best known movies, and clips from various others I'd never heard of, including a tasty little drama called The Small Back Room. Powell, once his partnership with Pressburger was over, made Peeping Tom, denigrated in its day, acclaimed as a masterpiece more recently. "But when do the English ever appreciate their great men?" asks Powell towards the end of the documentary. It's an old problem. One is not a prophet in one's own country. Even the greatest artists can't guarantee financing when the moneymen are merely bean counters.
I found it very moving, hearing the story of how the young Scorsese went in search of his hero (Powell), rescued him from obscurity, and brought him back into the world of clapperboards, gaffers and script editing. Theirs was a friendship born of mutual respect, as indeed was that of Powell and Pressburger. Love and respect. How much we need these things, ever onward, hither and yon.
Please go and see this movie. Few will. Be one of the few.
- HuntinPeck80
- May 11, 2024
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- Also known as
- Meydin İngiltere: Powell ve Pressburger Filmleri
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,083
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,083
- Jul 14, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $71,043
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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