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
Using some rarely seen interview footage of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and very, very, few industry talking heads, this is a fitting tribute to two men who trail-blazed British cinema in the 1940s and truly inspired the presenter - Martin Scorsese. His pieces to camera are sparingly interspersed into his narration of the astonishingly bold and creative aspiration of these film-makers who made a range of films ranging from lightly comedic romances through the dark times of WWII and their more propagandist elements, to full blown theatrical adaptations using great artistes like Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Robert Sounseville, Ludmilla Tcherina and the usually present Anton Walbrook. In partnership with the additional, often inspired, vision of regular cinematographers like Jack Cardiff and Christopher Challis they used colour, shade, light and most importantly (I think) music to augment some stirring characterisations and potent stories that tackled a plethora of topics that resonated strongly with audiences hitherto unexposed to the sheer grandeur of the experience on the screen before them. The documentary is composed so as to leave virtually all of the heavy lifting to the pair themselves. Scorsese gently, but enthusiastically and insightfully, guides us through their careers without spending much time on their personal lives or other distractions, and that allows us to savour the variety of the Archer's productions, the delicacy of their writing - especially from David Niven, Roger Livesey and Kim Hunter in "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), and leaves us with a sympathetically and critically crafted appraisal of two cinema geniuses. It's a chronology of sorts, but not just of film making - it tells us a little about the evolving attitudes and tastes of the audiences too.
- CinemaSerf
- May 14, 2024
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Meydin İngiltere: Powell ve Pressburger Filmleri
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $7,083
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,083
- Jul 14, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $71,043
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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