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The films of Powell and Pressburger will be part of a MoMA retrospective titled 'Cinema Unbound.'

A much-loved film that catapulted a Dunfermline-born ballerina to international fame is making a big-screen comeback in her home city.

A much-loved film that catapulted a Dunfermline-born ballerina to international fame is making a big-screen comeback in her home city. 

Highlights from our exhibition The Red Shoes: Behind the Mirror, including the ballet shoes worn by Moira Shearer and on loan from Martin Scorsese’s private collection.

Since her husband’s death, the Oscar-winning editor has been restoring the magnificent films he made with Emeric Pressburger, including The Red Shoes

An exhibition at Derek Jarman’s former home in Dungeness creatively explored the links between Jarman, the work of Powell and Pressburger and their mutual love of magic and the fantastical.

An exhibition at Derek Jarman’s former home in Dungeness creatively explored the links between Jarman, the work of Powell and Pressburger and their mutual love of magic and the fantastical.

A rich exploration of the artistry of the film-making duo, founders of the Archers production company, who directed some of the most influential films in the history of cinema, from “A Matter of Life and Death” to “The Red Shoes”

In their best films, Powell and Pressburger often showcased female characters with modern attitudes and gutsy ambition.

Returning over and over to a battered VHS tape of Black Narcissus during her childhood, filmmaker Nasheed Qamar Faruqi remains entranced by the complexities of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece. ”I sensed that the film’s setting was not the subcontinent I knew, but a heightened elsewhere.”