The Tales of Hoffmann (GB 1951, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

Credit: Library of Congress. Photographs by Barbara Flueckiger.

See blog post “The Tales of Hoffmann: exclusive materials from the making of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece” on the BFI website.

 

Contemporary Reception:

Brown, Simon; Street, Sarah; Watkins, Liz (eds.) (2013): Interview. Dave Davis. In: British Colour Cinema. Practices and Theories. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125–130. View Quote

Selected Analyses:

Grob, Norbert (1991): Farbe im Auge, Ausdruck im Kopf. Hein Heckroths Farbdramaturgien für Powell & Pressburger. In: Katharina Spielhaupter (ed.): Hein Heckroth. Frankfurt/M.: Filmmuseum, pp. 57–78, on pp. 64–74. (in German) View Quote

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