Movie Movements by James Clarke

Author:James Clarke [James Clarke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781842434444
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

Concept

Michael Powell was a major, somewhat maverick figure in British cinema and perhaps only in the late 1970s, courtesy of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, did he enjoy a restored reputation that subsequently resulted in a widespread reconsideration and celebration of his work. His films are fantastical, attuned to the British pastoral, but with something of the mystical added in. There is general agreement that German Expressionism had a major influence on Powell, who often talked of the possibilities of a film as though it had all sorts of possibilities when thought of as composed. He ran counter to the tendency towards realism, and Hoffmann allows him to revel in this approach and, at times, to create a film that rather magically teeters on the brink of animation.

Powell and Pressburger embraced international influences both in their subject matter and visual style, and this set them apart somewhat from many other British-based filmmakers at the time. Michael Powell was born in Britain but Emeric Pressburger immigrated to England from Hungary and so a sense of cultural crossover was arguably inherent in his work and sense of what cinema could be. Their work adheres to a Romantic sensibility and in his book A Cinema of Magic Spaces Andrew Moor writes that ‘Powell and Pressburger repeatedly call for actively imaginative audiences’.78 Late in his life, Powell reflected that the film was one of the strongest he and Emeric Pressburger had produced.

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