The filmmaker — and America's film-history-professor laureate — pays tribute to the artists who gave us 'The Red Shoes,' 'Peeping Tom' and more.
A scene from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 'The Red Shoes.' The directors are the subject of the doc 'Made in England.'is recognized as a champion of cinema, a man who’s dedicated his life to preserving the seventh art, the former model for the single most 1970s beard ever and our greatest living American filmmaker.
It was the work of Powell and Pressburger’s Archers company, however, that left the biggest mark on him. And if you’ve seen— or really, any of the dozen or so projects the duo collaborated on together — you can understand why.‘s opening montage alone, in a which a greatest-hits reel of Powell & Pressburger classics offers brief samples of their cinematic brio, is enough to make you punch drunk on their sheer movie-movieness.
And if you love their films as much as Scorsese still does — a virtual impossibility, given his alpha fandom — you’ll feel that, like David Niven inis currently playing in New York, hits several more cities on July 26th and expands even wider on August 2nd. Be warned that it is a gateway drug. It’s also the sort of movie that makes you understand why people fall in love with movies in the first place.
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