SERIES
March 8–10 at the Trylon
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known together as the Archers, collaborated on the production of twenty-four landmark films that changed the landscape of British cinema. The two movies in this series were both made after the end of World War II and are elegantly crafted works that display Powell and Pressburger’s greatest strengths: potent humanism and lavish visuals.
(1946, DCP, 104m) dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger w/David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote. After a miracle saves the life of a soldier (Niven), a bureaucrat from heaven arrives to fix the error. Gorgeously photographed with stunning matte paintings, Life and Death is absolutely essential cinema. At Perisphere, Lucas Hardwick investigates what A Matter of Life…
Screenings: March 9 9:15, March 8 7:00, March 10 3:00
(1947, DCP, 101m) dirs Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger w/Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson. When a group of nuns head to the Himalayas to establish a new convent, their ideals clash with reality. Impressionistic and suggestively erotic, the Archers’ eleventh film is perhaps their peak. Perisphere contributor Sophie Durbin explores Black Narcissus’s take on nuns, which…
Screenings: March 8 9:15, March 9 7:00, March 10 5:15