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To Singapore, with Love (2013)

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Last Metro, The (1980)

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Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026)

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Tag / Emeric Pressburger

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Tales of Hoffmann, The (1951)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1951, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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Reductively thought of as a ‘filmed opera’, Powell and Pressburger’s still underappreciated work of marvellous artifice and performative artistry tells of three tales of a poet who has no luck with the women he falls in love with.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Small Back Room, The (1949)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1949, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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An explosives expert must fight a personal battle with alcoholism in this minor WWII effort from Powell and Pressburger, which features one of the most suspenseful bomb disarmament scenes in early black-and-white cinema.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Black Narcissus (1947)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1947, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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Exotic locales (amazingly shot on soundstages) and erotic tension drive this extraordinary Powell and Pressburger Technicolor masterwork about cloistered nuns trying to set up a convent in the Himalayas to help the locals.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 20, 2021August 29, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1946, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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An inventive treatise on living and dying, and most important of all, of loving, as a legal trial in heaven decides the fate of an airman who is literally caught in an unprecedented life-and-death scenario. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 19, 2021June 21, 2024 by Eternality Tan

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1943, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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One of the towering achievements of British cinema from one of the medium’s most formidable directing duos.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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March 17, 2021October 3, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Red Shoes, The (1948)

  • Criterion Collection, Powell, Michael, Pressburger, Emeric
  • 1948, Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, UK
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A ballet dancer is torn between romance and ambition in one of Powell and Pressburger’s most glorious and ravishing Technicolor triumphs.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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