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 [...]
SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is a propaganda short directed by Michael Powell in 1941. Kind of timely in the wake of Remembrance Sunday. The text, read by John Gielgud, comes from a genuine letter, we are told, written by an English airman to his mother to be delivered in the event of his death. It’s of great historic interest, [...]
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.
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... Barker is doctorated 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...
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Center and Sundance Film Festival. Nominated for four Spike TV Scream Awards, winner of the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and an official selection at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics’ MOON will be available on Blu-ray™ for $37.95 SRP and DVD for $27.96 SRP. SYNOPSIS: Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell)...
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.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... at a screening of the magically restored version of The Red Shoes (made by her late husband Michael Powell). Various venues, Thu to 21 Nov Andrea Hubert Leeds International Film Festival , Leeds Has the recession hit the film industry? Looking at the lineup here there don't seem to be many big-budget releases. The Coen brothers, hardly huge spenders at the best of times, have no star...
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...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Arriving at the Film Forum on Friday is a new, impressively restored print of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic 1948 film The Red Shoes , about a tenacious ballerina torn between a lover and her art. On Tuesday, Red Shoes superfan Martin Scorsese — who oversaw the movie's seven-year restoration process — hosted a screening at the DGA Theater. We spoke with him...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
UK Feature Film Director: Michael Powell Writers: Emeric Pressburger, J. Storer Clouston, Roland Pertwee Cinematographer: Bernard Browne Composer: Miklós Rózsa Cast: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw This first Powell-Pressburger collaboration - a First World War set tale of intelligence and counter intelligence, in which a pair of German spies infiltrate...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... — and whether Thompson could have won with just a little bit of help from his friends. • Michael Powell and Julie Bosmon believe the small margin of victory "could have profound implications for the tenor of a third Bloomberg term, not least that it is likely to hinder the mayor’s well-honed ability to cow Democrats and liberal interest groups." It'll also...
英文人行道 et cetera, et cetera (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
No Longer Invincible By MICHAEL POWELL and JULIE BOSMAN Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s strikingly thin margin of victory in Tuesday’s election could affect his influence. And he was a leader in developing mechanical devices to assist failing hearts. An early invention, the roller pump, devised while he was in medical school in the 1930s, became the central component of...
FailedMessiah.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Bill would have extended limits for prosecution of child sexual abuse. Recorded Calls to Voters From Brooklyn Bishop Praise a Democratic Leader By MICHAEL POWELL • New York Times In an unusually overt step into politics by a religious leader,...
