Small Back Room Release

[Gilliam89]

I don't know if this has been posted before (if so, I apologize), but I have just found something so exciting - The Criterion Collection: The Small Back Room by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger



Powell & Pressburger's slightly forgotten masterpiece 'The Small Back Room' is getting the release it really deserves. Hurray!!! No more searching for £60 copies on Ebay!

[Steve Crook]

name='Gilliam89']I don't know if this has been posted before (if so, I apologize), but I have just found something so exciting - The Criterion Collection: The Small Back Room by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger



Powell & Pressburger's slightly forgotten masterpiece 'The Small Back Room' is getting the release it really deserves. Hurray!!! No more searching for £60 copies on Ebay!

Forgotten? Not by us



This is Criterion's first official announcement about it, so thanks for that. But Thelma Schoonmaker revealed that they were going to be working on it after they'd done The Thief of Bagdad. Thelma said they also hoped to release Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) and Herzog Blaubarts Burg (1964) on another DVD. They're gradually working their way though the Powell (& Pressburger) catalogue



As for The Small Back Room, I lent them a copy of David Farrar's autobiography so that they could do some background notes on him - even though he wrote it in 1947 so it only goes up to Black Narcissus. And I've been emailing with Charles Barr to sort out some details for his commentary track.



Steve

[Nick Dando]

Steve, just when is it that you work for a living?



Nick

[Third Man]

This is exceptionally good news Criterion continue the P&P homage with aplomb.



Simon

[John Hodson]

Optimum is releasing The Small Back Room on April 27, and being Optimum, we'll be lucky to get a trailer...

[alan gowdy]

For those who have not seen this film I strongly recommend you try to correct the omission. It's one of my favourites and somewhat tangential to P&P's other films of that era.

[GRAEME]

Small Back Room Release



Unfortunate title for thread, what? Reminds me of me adolescence...