Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Radio Times“Bizarre British-made effort...” flights of romantic fantasy are heightened by the work of Powell and Pressburger's regular cinematographer, Jack Cardiff. It's an acquired taste, perhaps, but Lewin was a genuine maverick talent...

Channel4 Film“The film's heart is so heavy it sometimes stops beating...” Lewin piles on the sense of foreboding as their fatal attraction winds up towards a bittersweet denouement, coloured by Cardiff's atmospheric camera work. Gardner intoxicates and Mason conveys well the sense of allure that his part requires...

The Telegraph“Ava Gardner’s temptress bewitches the Spanish coast of the 1930s...” This strange, neglected Technicolor fable, with photography that’s edibly lush even by Jack Cardiff’s standards, wasn’t made by Powell and Pressburger, but feels as if it might have been...

The Independent“Admire, if you will, the luscious Technicolor of this 1951 reissue...” Swoon at the almost unearthly beauty of Ava Gardner as an American playgirl on the loose in 1930s Spain. But try not to laugh at the tumultously silly farrago...

The Times“A glorious oddity...” A delirious slice of lurid 1951 romance lovingly restored to its full Technicolor glory, it stars James Mason at his most inscrutably Masonic as an ancient sailor doomed to eternal life unless he can find a woman prepared to die for him...

Guardian“An exotic, extraordinary creation...” Gardner, especially, just glows on the screen. The cinematography, an early Technicolor effort, was by Jack Cardiff. It's really worth the effort...

Empire“A timeless tale beautifully remastered...” In the hands of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Albert Lewin’s deliriously romantic, richly woven tapestry becomes a Technicolor dream, fully deserving of this digitally restored re-release...

Total Film “Not yet reviewed”

Little White Lies“Not yet reviewed”

Time Out film“Passionate, classical, mysterious and surreal all at once...” Gardner, in the role of a lifetime, seems as much screen goddess as mere mortal – an apotheosis rendered by cameraman Jack Cardiff in Technicolor so heady it’s the stuff of legend...