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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

 

Michael Powell (left) and Emeric Pressburger

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer
See also Michael Powell
Powell 1905 - 1990 | Pressburger 1902 - 1988 
Powell Born September 30, Bekesbourne, Kent, England | Pressburger Born December 5, Miskolc, Austria-Hungary
Key Production Country: UK 
Key Genres: Drama, Romantic Drama, War Drama
Key Collaborators: Reginald Mills (Editor), Alfred Junge (Production Designer), Esmond Knight (Leading Character Player), Allan Gray (Composer), Brian Easdale (Composer), Roger Livesey (Leading Player), Pamela Brown (Leading Character Player), Robert Helpmann (Leading Character Player), Jack Cardiff (Cinematographer), Christopher Challis (Cinematographer)
Highly Recommended: Black Narcissus (1946), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948)
Recommended: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), Gone to Earth (1950), The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
Links: [ IMDB: Michael Powell ] [ IMDB: Emeric Pressburger ] [ All-Movie Guide: Michael Powell ] [ All-Movie Guide: Emeric Pressburger ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference: Powell & Pressburger ] [ Film Reference: Emeric Pressburger ] [ Pilgrims' Progress: BFI Page ] [ The Powell & Pressburger Pages ] [ Kamera Article ] [ Film Comment: Rethinking a British Legend (2005) ] [ Screen Online Biography ]
Books: [ The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers ] [ Arrows of Desire: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ] [ Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), Black Narcissus (1946), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948)
 
Black Narcissus (1946)A Matter of Life and Death (1946)The Red Shoes (1948)The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
 
     
  "During the 1940s, Hungarian-born Pressburger and his partner Michael Powell - known as 'The Archers' - made a series of classic British films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! and Stairway to Heaven (both 1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). These films create a world of magic, humour, tenderness, passion and miraculous beauty." - (The Movie Book, 1999)  
     
  "They struggle with great, clashing virtues - with marvelous visual imagination (Powell) and uneasy, intellectual substance (Pressburger)...The great Powell and Pressburger films do not go stale; they never relinquish their wicked fun or that jaunty air of being poised on the brink.." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "The films that carry the unusual credit of "Produced, Written and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger" are eccentric, extravagant, witty fantasies. They contrast sharply with the realistic approach typical of British cinema of their period." - Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006)  
     
  POWELL: "One of the most imaginative writer/directors in the British cinema. He lensed comedy (Colonel Blimp, 45), fantasy (Stairway to Heaven, 46), homespun drama (I Know Where I'm Going, 47), psychological studies (The Small Back Room, 49), war stories (One of Our Aircraft is Missing, 42), and even films of ballet and opera (Tales of Hoffmann, 51). Powell had an energetic camera style and a sense of color few of his contemporaries shared." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)  
     
 

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