Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: May 9, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger; Our Mothers; Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes; and The Almond and the Seahorse
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (12A)
Directed by David Hinton
★★★★
MARTIN SCORSESE delivers a very personal and moving love letter to two of British cinema’s greatest film-makers — Michael Powell (British) and Emeric Pressburger (Hungarian) — two mavericks who made bold and audacious trailblazing films.
This is a masterclass in film-making as Scorsese, who presents and narrates this documentary directed by David Hinton, analyses Powell and Pressburger’s most renowned works including The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life and Death, which is one of my personal all-time favourite films.
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