{"id":2529,"date":"2023-11-08T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/film-academy\/?post_type=faevents&p=2529"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:13:06","slug":"color-by-technicolor","status":"publish","type":"faevents","link":"https:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/film-academy\/recommends\/color-by-technicolor\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Color By Technicolor’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So goes the famous line from Powell & Pressburger\u2019s classic romantic fantasia A Matter of Life and Death<\/em><\/a> (1946), in which the stark monochrome of the after-life acts as a striking counterpart to the bold, rich colours of the world of the living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

BFI Film Academy SW are offering a 20% discount code to newsletter subscribers. Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a few highlights…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vertigo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former detective with a fear of heights is hired to follow a woman apparently possessed by the past, in Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s timeless thriller about obsession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wed 6 – Thu 7 Dec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Red Shoes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger\u2019s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri 15 – Mon 18 Dec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Narcissus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us in the spectacular historic surrounds of\u00a0The Mount Without<\/a>, the gorgeously converted grade II listed church on St Michael’s Hill, for an unmissable evening celebrating Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s gothic masterpiece\u00a0Black Narcissus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wed 20 Dec 19:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suspiria<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American ballerina Suzy Bannion arrives in Germany to study at the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy. But when a series of murders and a variety of other inexplicable events begin to pile up, Suzy realises her new school houses a terrifying secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri 8 – Sat 9 Dec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Matter Of Life And Death<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is rescued from the jaws of the afterlife in the Archers\u2019 delirious World War II air-pilot fantasia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri 1 – Sat 2 Dec<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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