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Arrows of Desire: Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger by Ian Christie, Martin Scorsese
lokster71's review
3.0
I finally finished this excellent study of the work of Powell and Pressburger today having started it last year and put it down. I love what work of Powell and Pressburger I've seen and this book does a grand job of looking at their whole careers so that I now realise I have only touched the surface of the work they did.
Christie does a fine job of contextualising their work, looking at their themes and their influence on modern film-makers - Martin Scorsese provides an introduction to the book. Indeed, I wasn't aware of how influential they were on the 70s American film-makers. Not just Scorsese, but Coppolla and others. There were some initial efforts for Powell to make a film version of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy through Coppolla's Zeotrope company but Coppolla's financial problems put an end to that idea.
An excellent and interesting read.
Christie does a fine job of contextualising their work, looking at their themes and their influence on modern film-makers - Martin Scorsese provides an introduction to the book. Indeed, I wasn't aware of how influential they were on the 70s American film-makers. Not just Scorsese, but Coppolla and others. There were some initial efforts for Powell to make a film version of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy through Coppolla's Zeotrope company but Coppolla's financial problems put an end to that idea.
An excellent and interesting read.
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