This 1948 classic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressberger is a magnificent work of cinema and has been called the greatest ballet film ever made.
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Criterion Blu-ray: A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), originally released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven, is as gorgeous and romantic as films come. The film opens with a celestial prologue and narration providing a sense of cosmic comfort of someone […]
It’s ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ for Michael Powell on VOD and Criterion Blu-ray/DVD
Michael Powell and Emerich Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946) (originally released in the U.S. as Stairway to Heaven) is as gorgeous and rapturously romantic as movies come. The film opens with a celestial prologue and narration that offers the sense of cosmic comfort of someone watching over it all, of some divine authority in […]