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‘Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger’ Review: Martin Scorsese Sends a Valentine to British Cinema’s Great Dreamers
Martin Scorsese lovingly narrates 'Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger,' an engaging tour through a vital filmography.
That it gets longtime Powell and Pressburger champion Martin Scorsese to narrate the proceedings, with the same blend of scholarly authority and avuncular enthusiasm he brought to “Personal Journey,” makes the doc more than the sum of its already attractive parts: a movingly sincere valentine from a filmmaker now due his own equivalent tributes, shortening the distance between youthful discovery and senior nostalgia. But if Hinton’s film will likely find its most appreciative audience on home turf, Scorsese’s presence — paired with a chatty, linear approach that is welcoming to non-experts while still providing plenty of nuggets for aficionados — makes it a cinch for global specialist distribution, as well as ample further festival spots, following its Berlinale premiere. In particular, a substantial section on 1950’s neo-romantic rural folk odyssey “Gone to Earth” — an unhappy collaboration with American super-producer David O. Selznick, who extensively reshot and recut it for the U.S. market — will send the unacquainted rushing to seek a copy, on the strength of Scorsese’s besotted analysis and some ravishing, mist-laced scene selections.
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