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A matter of life and death [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.

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Criterion Collection, 2018.

Criterion collection ; 939.

Alternate title:

Stairway to heaven [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2 videodiscs (104 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1946.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; 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.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

David Niven and Kim Hunter with Marius Goring, Roger Livesey and Raymond Massey.

"After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom hes just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earthpainted by production designer Alfred Junge and cinematographer Jack Cardiff as a rich Technicolor Edenclimbing a wide staircase to stand trial in a starkly beautiful, black-and-white modernist heaven. Peppered by humorous jabs intended to smooth tensions between the wartime allies Britain and America, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgers richly humanistic A Matter of Life and Death traverses time and space to make a case for the transcendent value of love.."--Container.

Fantasy comedies (Motion pictures)

Films for the hearing impaired.

Powell, Michael, 1905-1990.

Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988.

Niven, David, 1910-1983.

Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002.

Goring, Marius, 1912-1998.

Livesey, Roger, 1906-1976.

Massey, Raymond.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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