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"A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH - PING-PONG PAUSED Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 'A Matter of Life and Death' is a film that presents us with numerous wonders throughout. It asks us to believe that a seemingly doomed airman and a radio operator can fall in love over a short broadcast, and we accept it. It presents us with a vast escalator between our own world and 'another' and we gladly grant the concept. It differentiates worlds by contrasting Technicolor with black and white and we appla"
"January 10th Directed by: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger The first 10 - 15 minutes of this movie are so fucking fantastic, so epic in scope, unfortunately the film gets quite a bit less interesting visually and otherwise afterwards but c'mon, this is Powell and Pressburger, you know it still looked amazing. This film was definitely almost a favorite of mine, the story I think nowadays would be seen as "preachy", I would be guilty of this probably, but the message is so genuine and so love"
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"" is one of the most audacious films ever made - in its grandiose vision, and in the cozy English way it's expressed." - Roger Ebert"
" 10.12 Imaginative set decoration and unconventional storytelling (at its time) make this fantasy starring a young David Niven a classic."
" Marius Goring Kathleen Byron Kim Hunter and Roger Livesey Kim Hunter and David Niven Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Directors and Writers"
"Despite their late-in-the-game adoption by Martin Scorsese, among others, Powell & Pressburger had mixed success with awards: Powell never won an Oscar, only “49th Parallel” and “The Red Shoes” were nominated, and many of their best films, including “A Canterbury Tale,” “I Know Where I’m Going!” and “The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp” weren’t nominated for anything. But the most egregious snub is “A Matter Of Life & Death” — the pair’s wondrous, fantastical love"