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The movie, which is being revived at the Music Box in a restored Technicolor print of dazzling beauty, joins the continuing retrospective at the Film Center of 15 other films by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the most talented British filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Marie writes: Widely regarded as THE quintessential Art...
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The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife.
"Stairway to Heaven" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released on 8 November 1971 on the band’s untitled fourth studio album (commonly known as Led Zeppelin IV), by Atlantic Records.
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- “Stairway to Heaven” features an instrument you played in second grade. In the opening section of the song, Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones traded his four-string for a recorder—that old standby of elementary school music classes—and played it with a medieval flourish.
- Some fans think “Stairway to Heaven” was inspired by The Lord of the Rings. Long before Peter Jackson’s blockbuster movies, Zeppelin's band members were big fans of The Lord of the Rings.
- Even Robert Plant isn’t 100 percent sure what “Stairway to Heaven” is about. Plant believes the power of the song lies in its “abstraction.” “Depending on what day it is, I still interpret the song a different way—and I wrote the lyrics,” he said.
- “Stairway to Heaven” sounds wicked backwards—Literally. What if the lyrics to “Stairway” are so strange and convoluted because they’re actually meant to be played backwards?
Jun 8, 2024 · Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF...
In A Matter of Life and Death, the process is reversed. Squadron Leader Peter Carter (David Niven) is about to be plucked from life on Earth, filmed in vibrant Technicolour, and passed over...
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Martin Scorsese again brings back a classic movie STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. It is a fantasy showing the power of love over the powers of heaven. David Niven’s character Peter Carter is an English airman whose plane has been hit.
