“Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger” makes nearly every other filmmakers’ work, past or present, look like faded remnants of a separate, more inhibited medium. Collectively known as the Archers, Michael Powell, a hop farmer’s son from Kent, England, met Hungarian emigre Emeric Pressburger, who fled Nazi Germany for Paris and then, in 1935, London, and collaborated on 24 movie projects from 1939 to 1972. Their prime years of creative freedom, and just enough commercial successes to sustain it, were tantalizingly few. A decade, really. But their best years soared with astonishments, stretching the boundaries of screen...