Photograph: Jamie Rector/EPAIn response, Powell and Pressburger produced a timeless classic: the romantic, comic, tragicomic, Technicolor fantasy A Matter of Life and Death, a new 4K restoration of which is released in cinemas this week. War, love and weirdness: A Matter of Life and Death – 70 years on Read moreAs with Peter, so with the film itself. And the foremost advocate for A Matter of Life and Death and its dazzling director Michael Powell is Thelma Schoonmaker, the Oscar-winning editor best known for her long, brilliant collaboration with Martin Scorsese. “That’s why Marty is such a good director,” she says, “because he learned from looking at all those movies.”No surprise then that the rerelease of A Matter of Life and Death is so important to Schoonmaker. A Matter Of Life And Death is in UK & Irish cinemas from 8th December

Source: The Guardian December 05, 2017 15:11 UTC