A Matter of Life and Death (film)
A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during the Second World War. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. In 1999, A Matter of life and death was placed 20th on the British Film Institute’s list of Best 100 British films.
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A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during the Second World War. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The film was originally released in the U.S. under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film’s most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife. In 1999, A Matter of life and death was placed 20th on the British Film Institute’s list of Best 100 British films. In 2004, a poll by the magazine Total Film of 25 film critics named it the second-greatest British film ever made, behind Get Carter. It ranked 90th among critics, and 322nd among directors, in the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the greatest films ever made. The movie was released in black and white, but colour was not added during printing, giving a pearly hue to the black-and-white shots, a process cited in the screen credits as \”Colour and Dye-Monochrome Processed in Technicolor\”. This reversed the effect in The Wizard of Oz, and was used several times during the film. The decision to film the scenes of the Other World in black- and-white added to the complications, as they were filmed in Three-strip Technicolors, which were not used during printing. It was also released in U.K.
cinemas under the name Stairways to Heaven in 1946, and in the United States in 1947 under thetitle Stair Way to Heaven. The original version of this article stated that the film had been released in UK cinemas in 1946. We are happy to clarify that this was not the case, and that the release of this version of the film was in fact in 1947. We apologise for any confusion caused by this error. We have been asked to make clear that the title of this film is not intended to refer to any particular film or any particular actor or actress. We would like to make it clear, however, that we were not aware of any particular actors or actresses who appeared in the film at the time of its release. We regret that this error was made and we are happy that it has been removed from the public domain. We also apologise for the fact that we did not make this clear in the original release of the movie, as we were unaware of any of the actors’ names or any of their roles in the movie. We apologize for the confusion that was caused by the decision to release the film in the first place. We hope that this has not led to any further problems for the film or for any future releases of this type of film or TV series, and we apologise for this error on our part. We deeply apologise for the error of our decision to make this film available.
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