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After Powell had made two further films for Korda, he reunited with Pressburger in 1940 for Contraband, the first in a run of Powell and Pressburger films set during the Second World War. The second was 49th Parallel (1941), which won Pressburger an Academy Award for Best Story. Both are Hitchcock-like thrillers made as anti-Nazi propaganda.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger US title: The Pursuit of the Graf Spee: 1957 Ill Met by Moonlight: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for Rank Organisation Film Productions (and Vega Productions) US title: Night Ambush: 1959 Luna de Miel: Michael Powell Production for Suevia Films-Cesáreo González (Spain)/Everdene (GB) a.k.a ...
This category contains films which were either written, produced and/or directed by the British-based film-makers Powell & Pressburger, usually together but also to cover their solo work. As such, it should not be moved to anything like Films directed by Powell and Pressburger or it won't cover many of the films listed. Because they were such a ...
For any film lovers who grew up on, generationally depending, the cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, or the essential ’90s cinephile primer “A Personal Journey with Martin ...
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English filmmaker, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.Through their production company The Archers, they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going!
He directed “Made in England” and first met Powell in for a 1980s British TV documentary on him. He was approached by Schoonmaker, who initiated the film. Hinton quickly realized the zeal of his collaborators. “Scorsese and Thelma, they want to put in every good moment from every good Powell and Pressburger film,” Hinton says, chuckling.
Black Narcissus is a 1947 British psychological drama film jointly written, directed and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden. It stars Deborah Kerr , Sabu , David Farrar , and Flora Robson , and features Esmond Knight , Jean Simmons , and Kathleen Byron .
The BFI has set a major U.K.-wide film celebration of one of the greatest and most enduring filmmaking partnerships in the history of cinema: Michael Powell (1905-1990) and Emeric Pressburger ...