For any film lovers who grew up on, generationally depending, the cinema of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, or the essential ’90s cinephile primer “A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies” — or both, as for this writer — “Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger” arrives as an unmitigated treat.
A straightforwardly constructed documentary trawl through the dizzy highs and sporadic lows of the most iridescently fabulous filmography in British cinema, David Hinton’s film would be plenty pleasurable as a mere feature-length clip reel. That it gets longtime Powell and Pressburger champion Martin Scorsese to narrate the proceedings, with the same blend of scholarly authority and avuncular enthusiasm he brought to “Personal Journey,” makes the doc more than the sum of its already attractive parts: a movingly sincere valentine from a filmmaker now due his own equivalent tributes, shortening the distance between youthful discovery and senior nostalgia.
A straightforwardly constructed documentary trawl through the dizzy highs and sporadic lows of the most iridescently fabulous filmography in British cinema, David Hinton’s film would be plenty pleasurable as a mere feature-length clip reel. That it gets longtime Powell and Pressburger champion Martin Scorsese to narrate the proceedings, with the same blend of scholarly authority and avuncular enthusiasm he brought to “Personal Journey,” makes the doc more than the sum of its already attractive parts: a movingly sincere valentine from a filmmaker now due his own equivalent tributes, shortening the distance between youthful discovery and senior nostalgia.
- 2/21/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Jerry Jackson will never forget the last time he glimpsed his granddaughter. She was not yet 2 when a ray of sunlight came through Jackson's farmhouse kitchen and hit the little girl's face, illuminating it for several seconds before blackness descended on him once again.Jackson holds this and other recollections in his mind like an endlessly repeating home-movie loop. "I remember what sunflowers look like, the rolling hills, the color of the sky and the trees," says the 68-year-old, blind for nearly four decades. "I feel lucky for that. But I miss not seeing my kids and grandkids." Those grandchildren...
- 8/31/2014
- by Cathy Free and Alicia Dennis
- PEOPLE.com
Jerry Jackson remembers the day his life - and vision - changed forever. "In 1967, I started seeing spots," says the 68-year-old Iowa father and grandfather. "I was around 20 when the hemorrhaging started." Jackson would eventually be diagnosed with the rare genetic eye disease Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy (Adniv), which eventually causes blindness in those who carry the gene. Sadly for Jackson, he and many members of his family did: Of the approximately 123 diagnosed cases in the U.S., 84 are in the Jackson family bloodline, dating back to the early 1800s. Recalls Jackson of his initial diagnosis: "The retina was swelling,...
- 8/28/2014
- by Wade Rouse, @waderouse
- PEOPLE.com
Jerry Jackson remembers the day his life - and vision - changed forever. "In 1967, I started seeing spots," says the 68-year-old Iowa father and grandfather. "I was around 20 when the hemorrhaging started." Jackson would eventually be diagnosed with the rare genetic eye disease Autosomal Dominant Neovascular Inflammatory Vitreoretinopathy (Adniv), which eventually causes blindness in those who carry the gene. Sadly for Jackson, he and many members of his family did: Of the approximately 123 diagnosed cases in the U.S., 84 are in the Jackson family bloodline, dating back to the early 1800s. Recalls Jackson of his initial diagnosis: "The retina was swelling,...
- 8/28/2014
- by Wade Rouse, @waderouse
- PEOPLE.com
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