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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

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Description: The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime in the military are dramatized in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgerâ€™s magnificent epic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The film follows the exploits of pristine British soldier Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) as he battles to maintain his honor and proud gentlemanly conduct through romance, three wars, and a changing world. Vibrant and controversial, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at once a romantic portrait of a career soldier and a pointed investigation into the nature of aging, friendship, and obsolescence.

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Small Back Room (1949)

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Synopsis

After the lavish Technicolor spectacle of The Red Shoes, British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger retreated into the inward, shadowy recesses of this moody, crackling character study. Based on the acclaimed novel by Nigel Balchin, The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar), who, while struggling with a complex relationship with secretary girlfriend Susan (Kathleen Byron), is hired by the government to advise on a dangerous new German weapon. Deftly mixing suspense and romance, The Small Back Room is an atmospheric, post–World War II gem.

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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

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It's night over Europe, the night ofthe 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot desperately scanning the radio for signs of life.

His prayers are answered. June, a young radio operator, picks up his signal, and, in the final moments of the young flyer's life, a special bond is formed.

The next morning, washed up on an English beach, Squadron Leader Peter Carter is alive, he finds June and the two fall in love. Somehow, he survived. It's a miracle...or is it? Peter Carter should have died that night; a heavenly escort missed him in the fog above the channel, and now he must face the celestial court of appeal for his right to live.

One of the finest products of the partnership between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it is an extravagant allegory that manages to be simultaneously life-enhancing and necrophiliac.

First shown in late 1946, the re-released A Matter of Life and Death, one of the finest products of the partnership between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is an extravagant allegory that manages to be simultaneously life-enhancing and necrophiliac. David Niven is at his most charming as a wounded RAF pilot who on the point of death confronts a heavenly tribunal.

The themes are Anglo-American relations, imperialism and the shape of the post-war world, and the movie is dated only in the sense that it exudes that spirit of hope that informed the brief period between the election of the first majority Labour Government and the onset of the Cold War.

Kim Hunter, who the following year was to create the role of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, is delightful as the American WAC devoted to Niven, and there is a scene-stealing performance from Marius Goring as the eighteenth-century French aristocrat, a victim of the Revolution, who acts as a heavenly emissary. Jack Cardiff's photography (monochrome for heaven, Technicolor for Earth) and Alfred Junge's sets are exquisite.

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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945)

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Synopsis:
A young woman heads for a Scottish island where she plans to marry an old industrialist for his money. But bad weather prevents her reaching him, and she finds herself falling under the spell of the local laird.

Review:
In I Know Where I’m Going, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger created a modern folktale. Not an escapist fairy story but a modern myth, complete with hero, maiden, a curse, and a difficult trial that pits them against death. Despite its wartime setting (it was made in 1945), I Know Where I’m Going is not a period piece. By daring to mix a love story with fantasy elements leavened by near-documentary footage, the film has the timelessness of a legend.

I Know Where I’m Going opens with a montage of Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller), who from toddlerdom to young womanhood has no doubt about where she’s going. On the eve of her wedding journey, she has a swanky supper with her father (George Carney), a Babbitty bank manager ill at ease with his daughter’s high-flying tastes. She announces her impending marriage to Sir Robert Bellinger, many years her senior and head of Consolidated Chemical Industries, where she is employed. It’s one of the film’s strengths that Joan’s pretensions and airs seem silly rather than annoying, the foolish posturings of a young woman bound on bettering herself. Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father’s meekness and her mother’s absence. Joan bears a resemblance to Katherine Hepburn characters, but, fortunately, Hiller has none of Hepburn’s cloying grit, nor the sentimentality. Like Pamela Brown, the other female lead, Hiller shows us a flinty, quick-witted woman who can do without a man but would rather not.

The film relies a great deal on offscreen events and places: neither Potts nor Bellinger appear; an annual folk festival in Oban is lovingly detailed but not shown; and, perhaps most boldly, Kiloran itself is never seen. Paradoxically, these unseen matters enrich what is shown, revealing a great deal about the characters’ values and beliefs without resorting to straight exposition. Like a folk story, the film embroiders its own story with bits and pieces of other tales.

Joan remains stranded across from Kiloran, and Torquil, deeply attracted to her, tries to help. They make contact with Bellinger, whose braying over the airwaves exposes him as a blowhard. In the meantime, Joan has discovered that Bellinger merely rents the island; Torquil is the hereditary but straitened Laird of Kiloran; and even what appears to her to be irrational superstition — Torquil’s refusal to enter the local castle because of its reputed curse on the men of his family — becomes understandable as she spends more time in his unaffected company. He respects his traditions much as he respects the untamable weather of the islands, happy to live within their limits. Like the tartanned hills of Joan’s dream, the curse, potentially a hokey touch, becomes part of the movie’s lore.

Powell and Pressburger composed the film from a series of sleights of hand. Already mentioned are the fantastical dream sequence and the cobbled-together special effects of the whirlpool. But most spectacular was Powell’s work with Livesey. Bound by contract to appear in a play in London during the entire filming, Livesey never ventured beyond its suburbs. Instead, he trained a double to mimic his movements and stance for the location shots, with Powell shooting close-ups in a studio or just outside London. In A Life in Movies, Powell jubilantly admits: “I’m not sure, but I think it is one of the cleverest things I ever did in movies.” What makes this and Powell’s other work, alone and in collaboration with Pressburger, so compulsively watchable was his delight in using film to do the impossible. The alchemy he performed was always in the service of the story and the audience. Powell gloried in the medium’s abracadabra qualities. Folktale characters triumph over fear, withstanding a test to discover a truth or real love. With its emphasis on moderation over consumption, on eccentricity over conformity, and, finally, on authenticity over posing, the film continues a folkloric tradition. It argues for intuition and destiny rather than planning and strategy, against shiny novelties in favor of the genuine and enduring, and, finally, for not being too certain of anything — including where one is going. Powell combined the audacity of the con man with real respect for his viewers, rooting his somewhat incredible story in the realities of Hebridean landscape and indigenous residents. In the film, he and his team present an improbable blend of the specific and the archetypal, the result an impeccable delight.

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale (1944)

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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury Tale is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims—a melancholy “landgirl,” a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant—who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical town and forced to solve a bizarre village crime. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one of the filmmaking duo’s finest achievements, the dazzling A Canterbury Tale has acquired a following of devotees passionate enough to qualify as pilgrims themselves.

The 'meaning' of the 'sticky stuff' has been hotly debated - with at least one scholar referring to hte movie as 'the first bukake film'

It is more widely recognised more for its pastoral beauty however, and the rich history of England that it evokes.

Also included in this upload are the two segments from the US version of the film which feautured Kim Hunter. The US audience found the original rather perplexing & so Mickey was convinced to cut 20minutes, and to add these two segments to cast the film as a flashback. It didn't help much, but the opening is quite amusing in its own way.

As well as that there is an audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie.

About the Transfer
A Canterbury Tale is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1:33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit Datacine from the original 35mm nitrate fine-grain master. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, and scratches were removed using the MTI Digital Restoration System. To maintain optimal image quality through the compression process, the picture on this dual-layer DVD-9 was encoded at the highest-possible bit rate for the quantity of material included.
The soundtrack was mastered at 24-bit from the 35mm optical tracks and audio restoration tools were used to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on surround sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - The Small Back Room (1949)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945)

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger - A Canterbury Tale (1944)

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