Red Shoes: Music From the Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1941-1951
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Some of the original artwork for the 1948 film The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece, are to go on show at BFI Southbank.
Quickthink (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
This is the first part of a two part series on the idea of “escapism” and “truth”. The idea for this came when I began to think of a “manifesto” made back in the 1940’s by Emeric Pressburger. Read on! QT will start looking into the films of two classic British film makers, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and if [...]
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... Gough has worked with more good film directors than you can name - among them, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Laurence Olivier, Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, John Huston, Ken Russell, Joseph Losey, Franklin Schaffner, Derek Jarman, Sidney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, and Tim Burton. *Whew.* I'm amazed he hasn't been knighted! His best known roles are probably Jonathan Harker...
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Today's Guardian reports that the BFI will hold an exhibition of paintings produced by German artist Hein Heckroth. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger formed one of the greatest partnerships in British cinema giving us such gems as A Matter of Life and Death, The Black Narcissus and perhaps their "Sistine Chapel" the Red Shoes. In advance of the release of a restored version...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) .. Jean Renoir A Canterbury Tale (1944) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Alice in the Cities (1974) .. Wim Wenders The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) .. Sergei Paradjanov Strike (1925) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) .. Jacques Demy
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... Antonioni Persona (1966) .. Ingmar Bergman Black Narcissus (1947) .. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Vivre sa Vie (1962) .. Jean-Luc Godard Pickpocket (1959) .. Robert Bresson Night and Fog (1955) .. Alain Resnais Johnny Guitar (1954) .. Nicholas Ray Sherlock, Jr. (1924) .. Buster Keaton Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) .. Marcel Carné Nashville (1975) .. Robert Altman...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Details of a staunch British army officer, his life through three wars and his inability to cope with constant change. CAST: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook DIR: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger (1943)
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... as I drew closer and closer to the cinema. And there it was on the marquee - Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes . Lucky for me I had bought my ticket online the night before because as I entered the cinema the glaring, somewhat obnoxious sign read 7:00 show sold out. Shortly after this the even more obnoxious sign went up reading 9:45 show sold out. It was great...
Quickthink (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Readers of Qt may be wondering if I have gone a bit bonkers, writing first about the entrapment of Pompey and then about escapism and Emeric Pressburger. But we might get a better perspective on entrapment and escapism from this excerpt from “The Music Man”. Here the main character is trying to frighten the citizens [...]
Quickthink (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This is Part 2 of a Series on “Escapism” in Art. We started by taking a close look at a “manifesto” written by Emeric Pressburger back in the 1940’s. Here is a link to part 1. Pressburger made the claim that no artist believes in “escapism”. Instead, through subtlety artists coax their audiences to see the truth. But there seems to [...]...
StoverBlog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Great Thought for the Day: “No artist believes in escapism. And we secretly believe that no audience does. We have proved, at any rate, that they will pay to see the truth, for no other reason than her nakedness.” --Emeric Pressburger
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... in Medieval History. Maureen Dowd talks about the 1948 film The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) in the New York Times : There are many great works of art about obsession, from Heathcliff’s wailing to Ahab’s whaling, but this is surely the most gorgeously haunting. The destructive obsession portrayed here is not with a lover or outside object of desire....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
“The Red Shoes,” a classic 1948 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a gorgeously haunting work of art.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The colors in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece “The Red Shoes” don’t just exist, they also express.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Even in this age of Blu-Ray and appreciation for all things high-def, many take for granted how complicated but vital a great film restoration can be. Buzzed about at this year's Cannes Film Festival as one of the most miraculous to date is the UCLA Film & Television Archive's restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 's 1948 Technicolor masterpiece The Red Shoes , starring...
