I Know Where I’m Going!

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger · 1945 · 91 minutes
August 21 · Regal Riviera · 7:00 p.m.

“I reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, until I saw I Know Where I’m Going!” — Martin Scorsese

“The love story develops, deftly and gently, not between the customary movie paper dolls, but between two sympathetic, strongly individualized human beings, beautifully embodied by Miss Hiller and Mr. Livesey…. The film is an achievement in civilized comedy; even in its grave and noble moments it preserves a graceful, tender gaiety.” — James Agee

In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place—the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides. Wendy Hiller stars as a headstrong young woman who travels to these remote isles to marry a rich lord. Stranded by stormy weather, she meets a handsome naval officer (Roger Livesey) who threatens to thwart her carefully laid-out life plans.

“True cinematic visionaries and innovators, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger worked together on 24 films from between 1939 and 1972, with Powell handling direction and Pressburger responsible for the scripts—though their duties blended often enough that, for the films they produced together as The Archers, their credit read, ‘Directed and written by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.'” — Museum of Modern Art

Restored by the BFI National Archive and the Film Foundation in association with ITV. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Matt Spick.