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Cinema Unbound - The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger

Dive into the cinematic universe of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, whose creative partnership in the 1940s created some of the most stylistically ambitious, thematically rich, subversive, and sensual British films ever made. Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger is a major BFI UK-wide film celebration, taking place at QFT from Oct-Dec, and launching during the Belfast International Arts Festival.

Cinema Unbound: Black Narcissus

A classic tale of sexual awakening from master filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes), Black Narcissus tells the story of a group of nuns who encounter internal and external conflict when they open a convent in the Himalayas.
16 October 2023
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Cinema Unbound: A Matter of Life and Death

Starring David Niven as an air force pilot who is summoned to heaven after surviving a crash, A Matter of Life and Death is not only one of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s best films, but one of the greatest British films ever made.
18 October 2023 until 19 October 2023 , 22 October 2023
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Cinema Unbound: I Know Where I'm Going!

Recently restored by the BFI, I Know Where I’m Going! is a charming romantic masterpiece from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes) about money, marriage, and second thoughts.
20 October 2023 until 26 October 2023
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LUMI Presents X Ghouls on Film: Suspiria

Exploring the aesthetic and thematic influence Powell and Pressburger’s films have had on cinema, LUMI’s young programmers, in collaboration with Ghouls on Film, present an immersive dance performance and screening of Dario Argento’s giallo horror Suspiria.
21 October 2023
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Cinema Unbound: A Canterbury Tale (35mm)

Set amidst the backdrop of the Second World War Britain, A Canterbury Tale is Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s (A Matter of Life and Death) compelling reworking of Chaucer’s epic story.
27 October 2023 , 29 October 2023 , 01 November 2023
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Cinema Unbound: The Tales of Hoffmann

One of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s (known collectively as the Archers) most experimental and audacious films, The Tales of Hoffmann is a riotous cinematic fantasy of music and dance that tells the story of a poet’s three lost loves.
28 October 2023
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Cinema Unbound: Peeping Tom

Often described as the film that virtually ended Michael Powell’s career, Peeping Tom is a dark and disturbing psychological drama about a voyeuristic murderer that has become a cult classic. Newly restored in 4K.
24 November 2023 , 26 November 2023
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Cinema Unbound: The Small Back Room

Far from the lavish spectacle of The Red Shoes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Small Back Room is a shadowy and suspenseful romantic drama about a bomb disposal expert, his new girlfriend, and a dangerous German weapon. Newly restored in 4K.
01 December 2023 until 03 December 2023
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Cinema Unbound: The Red Shoes

The story of a ballerina driven to breaking point by an obsessive impresario, The Red Shoes is a visually ravishing classic that blazes off the screen with its spellbinding beauty.
08 December 2023 until 14 December 2023
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