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.

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David Farrar in 'The Small Back Room' (1949). Via Film Forum

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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