The Red Shoes

This is one of the most famous modern love stories of the century, given to us by the legendary filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It is a story that has moved generations of aspirants to the arts since the film The Red Shoes first appeared nearly fifty years ago. Here is the beautiful, tortured Victoria Page, torn by her passion for the ballet as well as by the love of young Julian Craster. Here, too, is the cruel, seductive impresario Boris Lermontov, who will give Vicky the red shoes in which she will dance out her tragic destiny.

Literature & Fiction

Powell, Michael

Pressburger, Emeric

United States

St Martins Pr

The classic story of a gifted dancer caught between two men and the greatest love of her life, the ballet

The Red Shoes: The Classic Story

While presenting the details of his life and his distinguished film career, the author offers a history of the film industry that covers the advent of sound and color, the politics, intrigues, and personalities, and the grand disappointments

A Life in Movies

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

KNOPF

Million-dollar Movie: Volume II of a Life in Movies

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations. Deep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same.

Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

History

Americas

Blue Rider Press

Product Description 
The moving story of a Navajo high school basketball team, its members struggling with the everyday challenges of high school, adolescence, and family, and the great and unique obstacles facing Native Americans living on reservations.\nDeep in the heart of northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5-million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Rez Ball is a sport for winters where dark and cold descend fast and there is little else to do but roam mesa tops, work, and wonder what the future holds. The town has 4,500 residents and the high school arena seats 7,000. Fans drive thirty, fifty, even eighty miles to see the fast-paced and highly competitive matchups that are more than just games to players and fans.\nCelebrated 
Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations. This book details his season-long immersion in the team, town, and culture, in which there were exhilarating wins, crushing losses, and conversations on long bus rides across the desert about dreams of leaving home and the fear of the same. 
 Review 
Praise for Canyon Dreams: 
"What a beautiful, big-hearted, illuminating book Michael Powell has written. Canyon Dreams is at once particular and universal as we follow the coming of age journey of the Navajo basketball boys of Chinle High." 
--David Maraniss, author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero\n“In 
Canyon Dreams, Michael Powell transports us to a Navajo reservation with an old basketball coach who teaches the X and O’s of hope to a group of high-schoolers who have had little reason to believe it exists. It is as inspiring as it is heartbreaking: I couldn’t put it down.”— 
Joe Drape, author of the New York Times bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen\n"Unmistakably beautiful. Powell is a gifted and giving writer, and his book is at once a reflection on youth and ambition and a fascinating chronicle of a town's struggle to survive in a world that's often cruel and hostile." 
—NPR\n"“(An) engrossing, more expansive book….[ 
Canyon Dreams] becomes a gripping, propulsive story about a playoff run.” 
— 
Washington Post\n“Powell knows his basketball, and his game accounts are exciting, but the real strength of Canyon Dreams is the insight it provides into the unique culture of the reservation.” 
—Booklist“Delivering a deeply felt portrait of life… As exciting as a full-court press and a thoughtful study of young athletes in a world little known to outsiders.” 
—Kirkus Reviews 
"Powell's immersion in the people and their traditions is heartfelt and lyrical, tied to the land and culture that leave kids to ponder 'Can I leave this? I don't know yet. It's my puzzle.'" 
—Shelf Awareness\n“Powell writes with intense empathy about the limited choices and chances players face after their glory days at Chinle High…. Powell’s intimate portrayal of students, teachers and an inspirational coach at Chinle High School is an important contribution to the literature on the education crisis that’s affecting native youth.” 
—Liz Willen, The Hechinger Report 
“Canyon Dreams is a sports book, but one unlike any you’ve read before, and one that will stay with you long after the final horn has sounded.” 
—Minneapolis Star Tribune 
"With 
Canyon Dreams, [Powell] combines his journalist’s keen observational skill with a poet’s sensitivity and creates a book which will linger in the minds of readers long after the final page has been finished." 
—Lincoln Journal Star 
"Powell captures the hopes and fears of his subjects, affirming that sports are more than just a game—they’re a p

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp traces, in flashback, the intertwined lives of a dashing young officer and his German Counterpart from their first encounter, fighting a duel in Berlin in 1902, to a double defeat - the gallant British officer becomes a crusty old Blimp, and his gallant German counterpart arrives in England as a pathetic refugee from Nazi Germany. The plot is juxtaposed to that of the British officer's thrice lost love - which introduces a disturbing undercurrent of romantic pessimism into what might otherwise seem a nostalgic chronicle. This volume also contains documentary material relevant to Powell and Pressburger's struggle to get the film made in war-torn Britain.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Arts & Photography

Christie, Ian

Performing Arts

Faber&Faber

Describes the author's attempt to make a film about how the outer Isles of Scotland were being de-populated. The book reveals that the islanders plight was mirrored in the obstacles the film crew themselves had to overcome.

The Edge of the World: The Making of a Film

Europe

Michael Powell's prolific life as a filmmaker stretched over half a century, almost from the very beginnings of popular cinema. In this, the first volume of his autobiography, Powell captures the startling momentum of his early career, which began while he was still in his teens when a serendipitous meeting with the great silent filmmaker Rex Ingram garnered him a job at Victorine Studios. From there he went on to apprentice with Alfred Hitchcock and then to Alexander Korda's studio, where he would meet Emeric Pressburger, his principal collaborator for many years. With wit and candor Powell recalls their astounding work together on such classics as Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes -- all of this narrated in his inimitable prose.
But A Life in Movies is more than just one man's story. Full of politics, intrigue, glamour, and grit, it's a fast-paced, atmospheric ride that sheds new light on the early days of the film business.

Michael Powell

The Porcelain Throne, set at the heart of the smallest room and witness to our dark business, can also be the seat of reflection and self-improvement. With that aim, this book contains more than one hundred dilatory games, tricks, puzzles, projects and pranks. Learn to make toilet paper tube gargoyles and an origami dragon, gain deep knowledge of toilet roll telekinesis, and discover the secret of the vanishing toothbrush trick. Many more amusing diversions and exciting challenges jostle for your attention to see you through those long bathroom visits.

Games on Thrones: 100 things to do on the loo

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Hamlyn

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Books by Powell, Michael

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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes: The Classic Story

A Life in Movies

Million-dollar Movie: Volume II of a Life in Movies

Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

Canyon Dreams: A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Edge of the World: The Making of a Film

A Life in Movies

Games on Thrones: 100 things to do on the loo