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Michael Powell

Ian Christie,Andrew Moor
Michael Powell Book PDF

Author : Ian Christie,Andrew Moor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838717148

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Michael Powell by Ian Christie,Andrew Moor Pdf

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.

A Life in Movies

Michael Powell
A Life in Movies Book PDF

Author : Michael Powell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571204317

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A Life in Movies by Michael Powell Pdf

"Much, much more than the reminiscences of a film director. It's a rich, beautifully detailed history of a time, a place, and a world gone by--the British film industry from the 1920s through the late 1940s, in which every remembrance . . . is filtered through [Powell's] poetic genius . . . as absorbing as any novel".--Martin Scorsese. 30 photos.

Million Dollar Movie

Michael Powell
Million Dollar Movie Book PDF

Author : Michael Powell
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0679434437

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Million Dollar Movie by Michael Powell Pdf

The late director offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film industry, detailing clashes with studio bosses and critics, the destruction of his career, and the greats with whom he worked

Powell and Pressburger

Andrew Moor
Powell and Pressburger Book PDF

Author : Andrew Moor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857733443

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Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor Pdf

The film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest worldwide, they now find new generations of admirers. This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. Moor reveals for example how the visual imagery of the films of the Second World War question current cinematic styles and how post war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman are in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance utterly international in character.

Michael Powell

David Lazar
Michael Powell Book PDF

Author : David Lazar
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578064988

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Michael Powell by David Lazar Pdf

This collection of interviews reveals the mind and the tactics of a master filmmaker who is woefully under-known, even as his films are widely celebrated throughout the world

Arrows of Desire

Ian Christie
Arrows of Desire Book PDF

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571162711

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Arrows of Desire by Ian Christie Pdf

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger formed one of the greatest creative partnerships in the history of British cinema - The Archers. Their films were often controversial - Churchill tried to suppress the release of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Later, The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman startled and enchanted cinema audiences with their use of colour, form amd music. However, in the last ten years the magic, poetry and passion of their work has been acknowledged around the world and they are firmly in the pantheon of film masters. This book is a comprehensive analysis of their films and is a useful guide to their work.

Michael Powell

Ian Christie,Andrew Moor
Michael Powell Book PDF

Author : Ian Christie,Andrew Moor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1838711384

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Michael Powell by Ian Christie,Andrew Moor Pdf

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.

Million-dollar Movie

Michael Powell
Million dollar Movie Book PDF

Author : Michael Powell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004069592

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Million-dollar Movie by Michael Powell Pdf

In this second volume of his memoirs, Michael Powell continues the story of his life, describing his love affairs and two happy marriages. He tells of his battles with film tycoons to prove that art films could be box-office success. After making "Peeping Tom" his career came to an abrupt end.

'I Live Cinema'

James Howard
I Live Cinema Book PDF

Author : James Howard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 1470011794

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'I Live Cinema' by James Howard Pdf

Michael Powell was Britain's best and most successful film director of the 1940s, working with the Hungarian screenwriter Emeric Pressburger as 'The Archers' on a series of classic films including 49th parallel, The life and death of Colonel Blimp, I know where I'm going!, A matter of life and death and The red shoes. Here, for the first time, Powell's entire career is examined and evaluted--from its beginnings as a 'grip' with an MGM film unit and working as a stills photographer for Alred Hitchcock, through an in-depth analysis of the 23 low-budget films directed by Powell in the 1930s, his remarkable partnership with Pressburger and the frustrations he faced in his later solo work--including the once-notorious Peeping Tom--as he found himself virtually excluded from film-making in Britain. Television and theatre productions are also explored, with contemporary material and many exclusive interviews completing a comprehensive assessment of a man whose reputation continues to grow as his outstanding body of work is rediscovered by successive generations of cinema goers.

Michael Powell

Ian Christie
Michael Powell Book PDF

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : British Film Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1844570932

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Michael Powell by Ian Christie Pdf

The films of Michael Powell (1905-90) and Emeric Pressburger (1902-88), among them I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), are landmarks in British cinema, standing apart from the realist and comic mainstream with their highly stylised aesthetic and their themes of romantic longing and spiritual crisis. Powell and Pressburger are revered by film lovers and film-makers (Martin Scorsese has called them 'the most successful experimental film-makers in the world'). In this first-ever collection of essays on Powell, an international group of critics and scholars map out his film-making skills, providing new readings of individual films, analysing recurrent techniques and themes, and relating them to contemporary debates about gender, sexuality, nationality and cinematic spectacle. Powell, with and without Pressburger, emerges as a film-maker of lasting originality and significance.

Powell and Pressburger

Andrew Moor
Powell and Pressburger Book PDF

Author : Andrew Moor
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1850439478

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Powell and Pressburger by Andrew Moor Pdf

The filmmaking partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger was one of the most remarkable and visionary in cinema. They made an extraordinary range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to A Canterbury Tale and The Red Shoes. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest worldwide, they now find new generations of admirers. This illuminating new book looks closely at these classic films to explore their complex relationship to national identity, and their developing interest in exile, borderlands, utopias, escapism, art and fantasy. Moor reveals how the visual imagery of the films of World War II question current cinematic styles and how post-war films like The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffman--in their highly expressive use of design, music and dance--are international in character.

Ill Met By Moonlight

W. Stanley Moss
Ill Met By Moonlight Book PDF

Author : W. Stanley Moss
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589882867

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Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss Pdf

"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read."—San Francisco Chronicle Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, together with a small band of Cretan partisans, kidnapped the general, then evaded numerous German checkpoints and patrols for nearly three weeks as they maneuvered across the mountainous island to a rendezvous with the boat that finally whisked them away to Allied headquarters in Cairo. "It was a mad adventure, and it came off. Moss recorded the whole escapade in a diary, which survives as a thrilling account of one of the most reckless and dramatic actions of the war."—Patrick Leigh Fermor "A twin masterpiece of action and narrative."—Spectator "[An] exciting account of a feat which demanded an extreme of daring and determination."—London Times The 2011 Paul Dry Books edition includes an Afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Arrows of Desire

Ian Christie
Arrows of Desire Book PDF

Author : Ian Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UOM:39015019747362

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Arrows of Desire by Ian Christie Pdf

Comprehensive analysis of the Powell and Pressburger films.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

A.L. Kennedy
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Book PDF

Author : A.L. Kennedy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838719081

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by A.L. Kennedy Pdf

Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it's a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of honour. A. L. Kennedy, writing as a Scot, is fascinated by the nationalism which The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp explores. She finds human worth in the film and the pathos of stifled emotions and unfulfilled lives. 'If he is unaware of his passions, ' she writes of Clive Candy, the film's central figure, 'this is because his pains have become habitual, a part of personality, and because he was never taught a language that could speak of emotions like pain.'. This edition includes a foreword by the author exploring the film's continuing relevance in an age of Brexit, when English and British national identity are deeply contested concepts.

The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger

Nathalie Morris,Claire Smith
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger Book PDF

Author : Nathalie Morris,Claire Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838719166

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The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger by Nathalie Morris,Claire Smith Pdf

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). Delving into their magical and obsessive worlds, this lavishly-illustrated publication presents fresh perspectives on the filmmaking duo, shining the spotlight not only on them, but also on their circle of talented collaborators. Thelma Schoonmaker, Caitlin McDonald, Alexandra Harris, Mahesh Rao, Sarah Street, Ian Christie and Marina Warner write about the key figures who shared Powell and Pressburger's creative journey, and Tilda Swinton, Tim Walker, Sarah Greenwood, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Sandy Powell, Joanna Hogg and Stephen Jones reflect on the ways in which Powell and Pressburger's stories and images have haunted and inspired them in their own work. The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger draws on the BFI's stunning design and archive collections, as well as key objects held in other public and private collections.