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CLASSIC RESTROSPECTIVE "Images are everything in my films, words are like music for
creating emotion". (Michael Powell). Perhaps the fact that
he was born in Canterbury (Great Britain, 1905) was an indication
that Michael Powell would go on to become one of the greatest "storytellers"
in all film history. Michael Powell was already a famous director
when he founded, in 1942, and in collaboration with his inseparable
friend Emeric Pressburger, the legendary production company, The
Archers, about which Martin Scorsese said: "Whenever I see
the logo of The Archers appearing on the screen, I know I'm in for
something unique, a very special kind of experience". Powell's
filmography, whether alone or co-directed with Pressburger, includes
a variety of magnificent titles in themselves evoking memories of
cinema's best moments: A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black
Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948) or the magnificent and harrowing
Peeping Tom (1959). The comprehensive retrospective offered by the
Donostia-San Sebastian Festival, together with the publication of
Ian Christie's book, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger: Arrows
of Desire, in its now regular co-operation with Filmoteca Española
(Spanish Film Archive), will make it possible to recover these titles
while discovering a part of his cinema which had always remained
somewhat in the dark. |
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