Tribute to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
February 24, 2010, 10:19 AM
“Written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.” This celebrated title graces almost 20 films by perhaps the most remarkable creating duo in the history of film. The 45th Karlovy Vary IFF will devote one of its retrospectives to the filmmakers.
The career of the British film director Michael Powell (1905-1990) began in the famed silent-era director Rex Ingram´s film unit based in Nice, before moving on to collaborate with Alfred Hitchcock and later to direct so called “quota quickies”. Then came the fateful year of 1939 when the talented filmmaker met a Hungarian immigrant named Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988) who was already a renowned screenwriter. Under the auspices of their production company, The Archers, they created films provocative for their unclassifiability at a time when British film sought strength in near documentary-like realism or escape in comedies and melodramas. Works such as A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) aroused controversy for decades until they were finally recognized as essential to the development of European and world film. Much credit for this belongs to an eminent admirer and promoter of the creative tandem’s work, Martin Scorsese, whose The Film Foundation (together with UCLA Film & Television Archive) was behind the extensive 2-year 4K digital restoration of The Red Shoes (1948). Premiering last year at Cannes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s most famous film will be screened alongside the above-mentioned titles via the Karlovy Vary retrospective.
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