Well. What an incredibly unfortunate experience. The Red Shoes contains twenty of the most beautiful minutes ever put on film, the ballet sequence. It’s a visual feast–the film must be awe-inspiring on the big screen. The story, however, is awful. For a film with a fifty-two minute (of 134 minutes) first act, the idea of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Emeric Pressburger'
The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
January 23rd, 2006 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Tales of Hoffmann (1951, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
January 8th, 2006 No Comments
In honor of Dennis Arundell’s translation of The Tales of Hoffman’s lyrics (into English), how visually flawless, how totally heartless.
Hoffmann is not an adaptation of the opera, rather a filmic performance. Depending on your opinion, this approach is either the benefit or failure of the film. The performances–hopefully–were meant to be judged on their singing […]
Black Narcissus (1947, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
November 26th, 2005 No Comments
If you’ve never seen a film by the Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), you’ve never seen a film like one of theirs’. If you have seen a film by the Archers, and you sit down to watch another of their films, you’ve still never seen a film like the one you’re about to watch. […]
They’re a Weird Mob (1966, Michael Powell)
August 28th, 2005 No Comments
I could have gone forever without knowing the Archers (Pressburger wrote the film under a pseudonym) were capable of such a piece of shit. They’re a Weird Mob is not about gangsters–specifically small time gangsters, which is what I thought–it’s about Australians, as seen by a recent Italian immigrant.
It’s really, really bad.
Oddly, the acting is […]
