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They made 24 often morally complex pictures before falling out of fashion. Now, as a monumental BFI retrospective kicks off, can their stricken pilots and posh ballerinas speak to our divided era?
One was a blazing, brilliant, bearded American moviemaker at the height of his fame, the other, a fogeyish, out-of-fashion British duo, who loved Bach, Scottish mountains and. Arsenal FC. Geoffrey Macnab recalls the film world’s most peculiar – and fascinating – friendship