Cinema Unbound: Powell + Pressburger
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They're a Weird MobThey're a Weird Mob
Comedy1966107 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Powell and Pressburger head to Australia to adapt local author John O’Grady’s popular novel about a newly arrived Italian labourer’s culture clash with the Aussie way of life.
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I Know Where I'm Going!I Know Where I'm Going!
Drama194590 minsDirector: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Powell and Pressburger’s heady romantic masterpiece has never looked or sounded finer than in this revelatory restoration from the BFI National Archive.
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A Canterbury TaleA Canterbury Tale
War1944125 minsDirector: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Powell and Pressburger's most personal film combines a Chaucer-inspired pilgrimage with a war-time celebration of English landscape and values to create a gem of British cinema.
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The Spy in BlackThe Spy in Black
War193979 minsDirector: Michael Powell
A masterful thriller with true flair, The Spy In Black has a much larger importance: it threw Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger together for the first time.
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Black NarcissusBlack Narcissus
Drama1947101 minsDirector: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Tensions grow when a group of nuns open a convent in the Himalayas in Powell and Pressburger’s remarkable melodrama, starring Deborah Kerr.
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49th Parallel49th Parallel
Government sponsored film1941122 minsDirector: Michael Powell
A stranded U-boat crew navigate a hostile Canada in this propaganda odyssey starring Laurence Olivier.
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The Life and Death of Colonel BlimpThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
War1943164 minsDirector: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece follows the rise and fall of a career soldier, from dashing and brave young officer in the Boer War to a pompous and old-fashioned Colonel by the time of World War Two.
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Oh... Rosalinda!!Oh... Rosalinda!!
Musical195699 minsDirector: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Like the gloriously camp, all-singing, all-dancing cousin of The Third Man, the Archers’ take on Strauss’s operetta of infidelity is as frothy as the champagne it celebrates.
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The Boy Who Turned YellowThe Boy Who Turned Yellow
Children's197254 minsDirector: Michael Powell
A London schoolboy’s surprise transformation marks the final collaboration of great British director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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Hotel SplendideHotel Splendide
Comedy193253 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Music hall veteran Jerry Verno stars as a lowly clerk who gets more than he bargained for when he inherits a hotel, in Michael Powell's charming comedy.
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The Edge of the WorldThe Edge of the World
Drama193775 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Michael Powell's daring, windswept story of the inhabitants of a remote island who find their way of life threatened by a rapidly industrialising world.
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RynoxRynox
Crime193246 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Michael Powell’s earliest existing film is a twisty thriller crafted with a bold visual style that is unmistakeably influenced by Fritz Lang.
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The Night of the PartyThe Night of the Party
Crime193461 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Michael Powell’s fun stage adaptation about a murder at a society party, with characterful performances from its fine ensemble cast.
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Bluebeard's CastleBluebeard's Castle
Performance196362 minsDirector: Michael Powell
Discover a ‘lost’ masterpiece from acclaimed director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes and Peeping Tom), with this stunning adaptation of Béla Bartok’s expressionist opera.
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The VolunteerThe Volunteer
Government sponsored film194442 mins Location: Denham
Entertaining and evocative Fleet Air Arm drama-doc propaganda piece, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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Return to the Edge of the WorldReturn to the Edge of the World
Documentary197824 mins Location: Shetland Islands
Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there.
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An Airman's Letter to His MotherAn Airman's Letter to His Mother
Documentary19416 mins
A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.
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Powell + Pressburger
Powell and Pressburger produced a body of work at once daringly subversive, breathtakingly inventive and passionately romantic.
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Phantom Threads: Powell + Pressburger in Context
A collection of films from other directors which are somehow linked to the Archers’ own films.
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Powell Before Pressburger
Powell cut his teeth making low-budget films under the British ‘quota’ system from 1931-36.