Join us for a special classic film season at the Regent, where we dive into the work of the greatest directorial partnership in film history: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. While the quintessentially English Powell and the Jewish-Hungarian Pressburger may have seemed like an unlikely duo, their contrasting sensibilities would combine to create an extraordinary range of films, injecting a much-needed burst of expressionism and flamboyance to the landscape of British cinema at the time.

 

From pastoral idylls like A Canterbury Tale, to stylised fantasias such as Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes, their films remain some of the most remarkable and visionary masterworks ever committed to celluloid. With champions like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, and revived critical interest around the world, Powell & Pressburger continue to find generations of new admirers.

 

Over the next few months we've hand-picked some of our favourite, and most notable, Powell & Pressburger films for you to experience back on the big screen where they belong.