Audacity and ambivalence’ are the two words that documentarian David Hinton uses to sum up the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. ‘It’s the audacity of the ideas, the ambivalence of the characters; there’s always this complexity.’
In 1986, Hinton directed an episode of that explored... The visionary director, then in his 80s and ostracised from the film industry since i960 serial killer movie Peeping Tom caused outrage, hit it off with the 30-something Hinton. The two remained friends until Powell’s death in 1990. Little wonder, then, that Powell’s wife, Thelma Schoonmaker the editor of every Martin Scorsese picture since - suggested Hinton to helm feature-length Powell and Pressburger doc .
