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Love flourishes in the Scottish Hebrides in this windswept enchantment from British cinema's most passionate visionaries, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
I Know Where I'm Going! declares headstrong, upwardly mobile Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) en route to her marriage to a wealthy industrialist-until her carefully laid plans are blown away by a raging storm that leaves her stranded on an island off the Scottish coast with a dashing naval officer (Roger Livesey).
Shot in ethereal black and white that enhances the almost mystical air of its setting-a folkloric world where legends and curses still hold sway-this beloved romance is one of cinema's most stirring expressions of the eternal conflict between the head and the heart.
With a new 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, I Know Where I'm Going! is given the Criterion treatment and released on 4K UHD 15th December 2025 from Spirit Entertainment.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration by the BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation, supervised by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring film historian Ian Christie
- Restoration demonstration with an introduction by Scorsese and commentary by Schoonmaker Powell
- Behind-the-scenes stills narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- I Know Where I'm Going! Revisited, a 1994 documentary by Mark Cousins
- Photo-essay by writer Nancy Franklin exploring the locations used in the film
- Home movies from one of director Michael Powell's Scottish expeditions, narrated by Schoonmaker Powell
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- An essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith