“Grand, poetic, wise, adventurous, headstrong, enraptured by beauty, deeply romantic, and completely uncompromising.” That’s how Martin Scorsese, one of the biggest and keenest admirers of the legendary team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, described their phenomenal work. During their creative collaboration lasting from 1939 until 1972, Powell & Pressburger made twenty-four films that hold a unique place in the history of British cinema. Instead of conventional tendency towards realism, Powell and Pressburger deluged the screen with romance, fantasy, humour, and unprecedented visual opulence.
Programmers:
Iva Hejlíčkováis the SFS Programming Director who, besides organizing the Summer Film School, is mainly interested in British and American cinema while being most passionate about the classical Hollywood cinema and almost all its filmmakers.
Programme sections
