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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2770 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-20
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 11
• Running time: 1258 minutes

Synopsis

The Powell And Pressburger Collection contains eleven Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell films. Titles in the box set include:

1. “A Matter of Life and Death”
2. “The Red Shoes”
3. “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp”
4. “A Canterbury Tale”
5. “I Know Where I'm Going”
6. “49th Parallel”
7. “Battle of the River Plate”
8. “I’ll Met by Moonlight”
9. “They're a Weird Mob”
10. “The Tales of Hoffman”
11. “Black Narcissus”

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Customer Reviews

Powell & Pressburger
First came across Powell & Pressburger films when I watched 'A Matter of Life & Death' and I only watched it because I am a fan of David Niven. I loved everything about the film not just Niven and started to look for more 'A Canterbury Tale' was the next one I tracked down, again absolutely brilliant. I bought this collection because it contained their better known absolute classics as well as a few I'd not seen or heard of. If you like black & white movies which are quirky,intelligent,entertaining, beautifully filmed and acted you'll love these.

The Greatest British Films ever?
If you look through listings when any of these films are shown on TV you will see five stars more often than not. In this box are eleven critically-acclaimed masterpieces from the greatest production/direction/writing team in the history of cinema. There is more wit, intelligence and visual & verbal inventiveness in five minutes of one of these films than in an entire year of CGI blockbusters from the Hollywood Hype Machine.
Please don't be put off if the only P & P film you have seen is "The Red Shoes". As special as this film undoubtedly is, it is also a rather dated melodrama that has tended to deflect attention from many finer films by this team. To give just one example: Imagine you are a film maker in the middle of a major European war. You set yourself the task of exploring the questions: "What does it mean to be "British"? What are we fighting to preserve? How is it different for each of us? How important is it?" Big questions indeed, but P & P approach it in an oblique and personal way that you just couldn't anticipate. I could watch "A Canterbury Tale" every day for a week and still feel that I had not exhausted its funny, touching intricacies or its evocation of an era.
One or two "obvious" choices are not included and there are some that are not quite up to the stratospheric standard of the greatest. Nevertheless, the films chosen are all very fine and at least six of them are unequivocal masterpieces. I would rather see a second rate film from Michael Powell than a first rate film from almost any film-maker working today. Not only that, but just look at the price for which this set is being offered on Amazon. (I hate to rub it in, but I bought this when it was being offered at around £18. It's still an astonishing bargain).

(I am currently working my way through the individual films in the box and so, although I have seen them all at some time in the past, I am not yet able to comment on all the individual films as presented here. I intend to do so when I have had a complete viewing - I will add the comments to this review).