Our major retrospective Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger is coming to the USA and Canada over the next few months with a variety of cultural partners including TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, Seattle and an extensive retrospective programme at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
The project was a major hit last autumn for the BFI celebrating one of the greatest and most enduring creative partnerships in the history of film, the legendary writer-producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and involving expert preservation and restoration work from the world-leading team at BFI National Archive.
Exploring the vital creativity and magic of iconic films such as The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948), films were presented on the big screen alongside archive rarities including nitrate, new digital restorations, remastered early works, new 35mm prints from previous restorations and more at the BFI’s flagship venue BFI Southbank, London and cinemas across the UK (funded by the UK’s National Lottery)…