November 19–December 30, 2016
The witty, daring, and lavish films of writer-director-producer duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, including the influential Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and A Matter of Life and Death.
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The Tales of Hoffman
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The Spy in Black
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The Red Shoes
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Black Narcissus
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Gone to Earth
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Films - Upcoming
Events - Selected
Objects - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
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Oh . . . . Rosalinda!!
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Friday, December 30 1 PM
United Kingdom, 1955Imported Print
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger- Friday, December 23 7 PM
- Thursday, December 29 1 PM
United Kingdom, 1951Digital Restoration
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The Red Shoes
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger- Saturday, November 26 3 PM
- Wednesday, December 28 1 PM
United Kingdom, 1948Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 10 & up
Ballerina Moira Shearer must choose between love and art in this ravishing melodrama. “No flatscreen TV will ever do it justice—see it in the theater” (New York).
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The Small Back Room
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Sunday, December 18 4:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1948Imported Print
An embittered World War II bomb-disposal expert is tapped to conquer a sinister new German booby trap in a claustrophobic, expressionist film noir that includes “Powell’s most erotically eloquent lovers” (David Thomson).
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Black Narcissus
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Saturday, November 19 8 PM
- Saturday, December 17 3:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1947Imported Print
This tale of nuns in a remote Himalayan convent reaches delirious heights of psychosexual melodrama, thanks in large part to Jack Cardiff’s Oscar-winning cinematography.
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Gone to Earth
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Thursday, December 15 7 PM
United Kingdom, 1950Restored Print
Jennifer Jones stars as a beautiful and free mountain lass caught between a kindly parson and a leering squire in a masterpiece of Technicolor splendor, based on a Victorian-era potboiler. “Visually spellbinding” (Time Out).
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Sunday, December 11 3 PM
United Kingdom, 1943A career officer and lifetime bumbler recounts his adventures in this mocking send-up of the military upper crust. “The greatest English film ever made” (New Yorker). “Disgraceful” (Winston Churchill).
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A Matter of Life and Death
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Friday, November 25 3 PM
- Saturday, December 10 3:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1946Archival Print
World War II fighter pilot David Niven is caught between a black-and-white heaven and a glorious Technicolor earth in this odd and compelling hybrid of romantic fantasy and wartime propaganda.
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A Canterbury Tale
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Wednesday, December 7 7 PM
United Kingdom, 1944Imported Print
Three modern pilgrims almost accidentally retrace the ancient pilgrim’s path to Canterbury in an idyllic wartime ramble, one of Powell and Pressburger’s most personal films. “One of the richest and strangest treasures in British cinema” (David Thompson).
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49th Parallel
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger- Sunday, December 4 6:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1941Imported Print
A band of stranded Nazi sailors make their way across Canada in this wartime propaganda feature, which earned Pressburger an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard star.
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I Know Where I’m Going!
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Sunday, November 20 4:45 PM
- Saturday, December 3 3:30
United Kingdom, 1945Recommended for ages 12 & up
Powell and Pressburger’s most romantic, lyrical film sets a love affair against the vast beauty of Scotland’s Hebrides islands. “One of the finest of all screen romances” (Village Voice).
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Contraband
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger- Friday, December 2 6:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1940Imported Print
A Danish sailor (Conrad Veidt) is on the trail of illegal contraband (and Valerie Hobson) in this wartime thriller, tinged with both the whimsical and the nightmarish. “Playful and provocative” (Ian Christie).
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The Spy in Black
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell- Sunday, November 27 2:30 PM
United Kingdom, 1939Imported Print
Conrad Veidt plays a Nazi submariner hiding out in the Scottish isles as he plots to sink the British fleet in this “Hitchco*ckian blending of humor and thrills” (William K. Everson).