Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Martin Scorsese front and centre in a wonderful chronicle of influential duohad severe asthma and could not play sports or take part in physical activities. He found solace – and a lifelong passion – in cinema. At home, watching TV at a time when Hollywood studios would not allow their films to be broadcast, he became fascinated by British cinema.
Thelma Schoonmaker on Michael Powell: ‘He asked me to put ‘film director and optimist’ on his gravestone. Which I did’ As a primer, Made in England breaks down the division of labour between the pair and the alchemy that conjured such paradoxes as the quintessentially English and quietly international The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a wartime picture featuring Anton Walbrook’s dashing German officer.
Scorsese’s rhapsodical memories match the romance of Powell and Pressburger’s transportive storytelling and indelible images; his account of first seeing the rhododendrons in Black Narcissus on a nitrate print is as magical as the image. Our only caveat? Disappointed to hear Scorsese describe Ingram as British.
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