Throughout the 1930s, director michael powell the red shoes, a matter of life and death, peeping tom honed his craft on a succession of modestly budgeted feature films produced under the united kingdom's screen 'quota' system'. '.strtoupper('m')any of these titles remain lost but, those which survive, reveal a burgeoning talent that readily established powell as one of british cinema's leading lights'. '.strtoupper('t')his new 2 disc collection brings together five of those early films directed by powell, newly remastered by the bfi national archive, including murder mysteries, sensational thrillers and a comedy caper'. '.strtoupper('d')iscover the formative works of a filmmaking icon, available on blu ray for the first time'. '.strtoupper('t')he films rynox 1932, 47 mins hotel splendide 1932, 53 mins the night of the party 1934, 63 mins her last affaire 1936, 68 mins behind the mask aka the man behind the mask 1936, 55 minsspecial features newly remastered from original camera materials and presented in high definitionnewly recorded audio commentaries by marc david jacobs rynox, behind the mask, emeric powell home movie, lawrence napper and dom delargy hotel splendide, jo botting and vic pratt night of the party, and ian christie her last affaire, bryony dixon riviera revelsriviera revels travelaughs no'. '.strtoupper('1') and no'. '.strtoupper('2') 1927 powell himself appears in these rare short comedy curiosities from the silent erainside the archive the early films of michael powell 2024 a new documentary exploring the bfi national archive's role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of michael powell.vanishing in thunder the unmade films of michael powell 2023 documentary by henry barnes exploring some of michael powell's unrealised filmsemeric pressburger home movie 1954 powell and pressburger are both seen on camera as they travel to argentina for a 1954 film festivalfirst pressing only booklet featuring contributions from james bell, marc david jacobs, lawrence napper, pamela hutchinson, ian christie, bryony dixon, claire smith, josephine botting and kieron webb