'England is a country worth living in, if only in the imagination'
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.
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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