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

Crowther, Bosley (1951): Opera on Film. An Opulent Tales of Hoffmann Does Not Fit Well on the Screen. In: The New York Times, 8 April 1951, p. X. View Quote

Crowther, Bosley (1951): The Screen. Tales of Hoffmann Arrives. In: The New York Times, 5 April 1951, p. 34. View Quote
Full text on The New York Times website. View Link

Selected Analyses:

Fischer, Lucy (2017): Cinema by Design. Art Nouveau, Modernism and Film History. New York: Columbia University Press, on pp. 50–51. View Quote

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

Street, Sarah (2012): Colour Films in Britain. The Negotiation of Innovation 1900–55. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, on pp. 193–196. View Quote

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