By Unknown Monday, March 11, 2013 '1950s 1956 British cinema Powell/Pressburger war films The Battle of the River Plate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate is a scrupulously authentic film about a real World War II battle,...
By Unknown Friday, November 16, 2012 '1950s 1951 British cinema Powell/Pressburger The Tales of Hoffmann Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's version of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann is a brightly colored, theatrical...
By Unknown Monday, October 15, 2012 '1940s 1946 British cinema Powell/Pressburger A Matter of Life and Death A Matter of Life and Death is an utterly charming fantasy of mortality and the afterlife, as well as a cross-Atlantic romance that considers...
By Unknown Monday, August 27, 2012 '1940s 1945 British cinema Powell/Pressburger I Know Where I'm Going! Moving, romantic, and utterly magical, I Know Where I'm Going! is one of the great collaborations of the Archers, writer-directors Micha...
By Unknown Saturday, May 19, 2012 '1930s 1939 Alfred Hitchcock British cinema Jamaica Inn [This post is one last late contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which ran from May 13-18. This y...
By Unknown Friday, May 18, 2012 '1930s 1934 Alfred Hitchcock British cinema The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) [This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This y...
By Unknown Thursday, May 17, 2012 '1930s 1932 Alfred Hitchcock British cinema Number Seventeen [This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This y...
By Unknown Wednesday, May 16, 2012 '1930s 1930 Alfred Hitchcock British cinema Murder! [This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This y...