Powell & Pressburger’s Radical and Ravishing ‘The Red Shoes’ Performs the Dark Side of Devotion
Powell & Pressburger’s film version of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Red Shoes” asks, is Art worth dying for?
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The Primal Instinct that Drives Wild Things in ‘Gone to Earth’ and ‘The Wild Heart’
Powell and Pressburger's Gone to Earth, and David O. Selznick's revision, The Wild Heart, take a philosophical inquiry into whether animals have souls and to what extent humans are animals.
In Sneaky Afterlife Romance ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, There’s Poetry but No God
Powell and Pressburger's witty wartime classic about a British airman who goes to court in heaven to appeal his death is a celebration of the human spirit that separates romanticism from sentimentality.
Venice Film Festival 2015: 11 Minutes + Heart of a Dog + A Matter of Life and Death + Interrogation
A thriller, a portrait of a dog, a challenge to Heaven, and a bloody crime drama.