Powell and Pressburger: Archive

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Daily Viewing. From "The Life and Death of Colonel... →

“Seeing Colonel Blimp strictly in the terms of for-the-war-effort propaganda is a terrible mistake,” warns Jaime N Christley in Slant. “There isn’t a jingoistic, early-to-mid-20th-century ‘I dare say old chap’ moment or sentiment in the film that Powell and Pressburger fail to elevate to a broader, frequently mythic, perspective. All the same, the wars...

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Black Narcissus by Walter Dukes

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Video Essay: Art Goes On Forever - A Tribute to Powell and Pressburger

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Powell - Tavernier

I remember meeting Nicholas Ray in Paris toward the end of his life. He was a very sad figure who was only looking at his old films, talking about the past and very much a prisoner of his own image, in addition to being a prisoner of drugs and other things. I remember thinking that I didn’t want to be like that when I got older. I wanted to be like Michael Powell or Andre De Toth, who were still...

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“My favorite film of all time is ‘A Matter of Life and Death,’...”

– Michael Sheen

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Deborah Kerr An Actress in Search of an Author →

With poise alternating with rebelliousness, Kerr plays three different women in Colonel Blimp (while turning twenty-one on the set in 1942), each one essential to a storyline that extends from London and Berlin in 1902, during the Boer War, to World War II. News of the film being shot in the middle of the blitz, and daring to portray a German officer in a sympathetic light by contrasting his...

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Deborah Kerr on Conrad Veidt

José Luís Garci: In his memoirs (A Life in Movies), Powell recalls a wonderful young girl who sold cigarettes in a night club. She had long beautiful legs and loving eyes and she was in a lovely sequence with Conrad Veidt that didn’t make it to the final cut. And he also mentions that he never forgave himself for not keeping those film strips with the gorgeous redhead. How was shooting with Conrad Veidt?

Deborah Kerr: The truth is I barely remember that, he was tall, elegant, serious, very self confident, very professional and he was quite nice to me.

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