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A Matter of Life and Death - 1896 (The Criterion Collection)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s heavenly romance, a stunning technicolor reverie… After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he’s just delivered his dying wishes and, face‐to‐face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defence for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black‐and‐white modernist heaven. Peppered by humorous jabs intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, the richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction from 2009 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
- New interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell’s widow
- New interview with film historian Craig Barron on the film’s visual effects and production design
- The Colour Merchant, a 1998 short film by Craig McCall featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- approx. 1 hour 44 minutes
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
- TBC
- David Niven
- Kim Hunter
- 2018
- English
- 1
- B
A Matter of Life and Death - 1896 (The Criterion Collection)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s heavenly romance, a stunning technicolor reverie… After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he’s just delivered his dying wishes and, face‐to‐face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defence for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black‐and‐white modernist heaven. Peppered by humorous jabs intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, the richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
Features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction from 2009 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
- New interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell’s widow
- New interview with film historian Craig Barron on the film’s visual effects and production design
- The Colour Merchant, a 1998 short film by Craig McCall featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- approx. 1 hour 44 minutes
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
- TBC
- David Niven
- Kim Hunter
- 2018
- English
- 1
- B
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