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Since becoming a director himself (and befriending Powell in the 1970s), Scorsese has made championing their films a lifelong mission, in recognition of their subconscious inspiration on his own work.
For any film lovers who grew up on, generationally depending, the cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, or the essential ’90s cinephile primer “A Personal Journey with Martin ...
21 January 2024 (Sundance Film Festival) Dirty Boy: Doug Rao 17 May 2024 The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze: Bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton: June 2024 The Last Breath: Joachim Hedén 12 June 2024 Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger: David Hinton 21 February 2024 Santosh: Sandhya Suri: 20 May 2024 Shikun: Amos Gitai
A Field in England is a 2013 British historical psychological horror film directed by Ben Wheatley. [3] The film, shot in black-and-white, is set during the mid-17th-century English Civil War . The film was released on 5 July 2013 on multiple platforms simultaneously, including cinemas, home media and video on demand.
This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows.The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which has its roots in 1960s West Indies culture, especially ska, soul, and reggae music, [4] [5] became influenced by the far-right, especially white nationalists and white supremacists, leading to divisions ...
This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture.
The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, [6] the "golden age" of British cinema is usually thought to have occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors David Lean, [7] Michael Powell, [8] and Carol Reed [9] produced their most critically acclaimed works.
The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in London, England, in collaboration with the British Film Institute. The festival runs for two weeks every October. In 2016, the BFI estimated that around 240 feature films and 150 short films from more than 70 countries are screened at the festival each year.