Steve Crook

The September programme for the NFT (BFI Southbank) includes a few screenings of what they say is a "New Print" of AMOLAD.
I expect they mean a new print struck off the same interneg, not that they've done a full restoration from the original elements.

Thu 25 Sep 20:45 NFT1
Fri 26 Sep 14:30 NFT3
Fri 26 Sep 18:30 NFT1
Fri 26 Sep 20:45 NFT1
Sat 27 Sep 15:50 NFT1
Sat 27 Sep 18:10 NFT1
Sat 27 Sep 20:30 NFT1
Sun 28 Sep 15:50 NFT1
Sun 28 Sep 18:10 NFT1
Sun 28 Sep 20:30 NFT1
Mon 29 Sep 20:40 NFT2
Tue 30 Sep 18:30 NFT1
Tue 30 Sep 20:45 NFT1
Continues in October

The programme says of it:
A visual tour-de-force, a marvellous romance, a witty commentary on Anglo-American relationships, and a feverishly imaginative fantasy, A Matter of Life and Death is Powell and Pressburger's masterpiece.

Before plunging into a transformative encounter between an RAF pilot and the grl answering his Mayday call, the film opens with a brief meditation on... well, the infinite universe. For this stirring story of the pilot's battle for life - and the love of his life - is also one of the great films about time. Alternating between earth and heaven, the script incorporates eternity, the legacy of history, an ordinary human lifespan, the transience of happiness, the fleeting image of a moment, and time stopped still - all eloquently evoked by expert play with pace and chronology. With heart-stoppingly beautiful images, the film embraces both the dizzy joys of being alive and the sad inevitability of death with such a sure sense of poetry and drama that by the time it ends, one still feels it has only just begun - Geoff Andrew


I think he likes it

Steve

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