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SOME years ago I found myself in Hampstead in London. It was Tom Conti’s fault. I was there to interview him for The Herald Magazine.

Martin Scorsese and his editor Thelma Schoonmaker looked to an obscure film from the great Michael Powell to inspire a decision in Killers of the Flower Moon.

They made 24 often morally complex pictures before falling out of fashion. Now, as a monumental BFI retrospective kicks off, can their stricken pilots and posh ballerinas speak to our divided era?

There’s a new BFI season dedicated to Britain’s greatest big-screen double-act

The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 film about a ballet and its company, is 75 this month, and its birthday is being marked with great fanfare. From October to December, the BFI is putting on a major retrospective of the films of Powell and Pressburger, with an accompanying exhibition and nationwide screenings

Our celebration of the groundbreaking filmmaking duo will be in cinemas UK-wide from 16 October to 31 December 2023.

Including seasons dedicated to Powell and Pressburger, Sir Horace Ové and Joanna Hogg, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon at IMAX.

One was a blazing, brilliant, bearded American moviemaker at the height of his fame, the other, a fogeyish, out-of-fashion British duo, who loved Bach, Scottish mountains and... Arsenal FC. Geoffrey Macnab recalls the film world’s most peculiar – and fascinating – friendship

For an angel like Aziraphale, there's no better choice than this Powell and Pressburger classic.

Our celebration of the groundbreaking filmmaking duo will take place from 16 October to 31 December 2023 and include a major BFI Southbank season, UK-wide cinema rereleases and more.