It’s a Big New York Summer for Filmmakers Powell and Pressburger, and Film Forum Has the Gem
A failure at the box office upon its release in 1949, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘The Small Back Room’ has been blessed by retrospect. It is a perfect film.

Working in conjunction with the British Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art has geared up for summer by organizing a retrospective of a British filmmaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Not to be outdone, the Quad Cinema will be presenting David Hinton’s documentary “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” in which Martin Scorcese provides a guided tour through their “grand, poetic, wise, adventurous, headstrong … deeply romantic, and completely uncompromising” corpus.
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