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A Matter of Life and Death - The Criterion Collection
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After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the bureaucratic error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist afterlife. Intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Interview from 2008 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
- New interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell’s widow
- New short documentary on the film’s special effects featuring film historian Craig Barron and visual-effects artist Harrison Ellenshaw
- The Colour Merchant, a 1998 short film featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff
- The South Bank Show: “Michael Powell,” a 1986 television program featuring Powell
- Restoration demonstration
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 104 mins approx
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
- English SDH
- 1946
- English
- 1
- A
- CRITERION COLLECTION
A Matter of Life and Death - The Criterion Collection
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After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the hereafter arrives to correct the bureaucratic error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth—painted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Eden—climbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist afterlife. Intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Interview from 2008 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
- Audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie
- New interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell’s widow
- New short documentary on the film’s special effects featuring film historian Craig Barron and visual-effects artist Harrison Ellenshaw
- The Colour Merchant, a 1998 short film featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff
- The South Bank Show: “Michael Powell,” a 1986 television program featuring Powell
- Restoration demonstration
- PLUS: An essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek
- CRITERION COLLECTION
- 104 mins approx
- Michael Powell
- Emeric Pressburger
- English SDH
- 1946
- English
- 1
- A
- CRITERION COLLECTION
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