Michael Powell Overview:

Director, Michael Powell, was born Michael Latham Powell on Sep 30, 1905 in Bekesbourne, England. Powell died at the age of 84 on Feb 19, 1990 in Avening, England and was laid to rest in Holy Cross Churchyard Cemetery in Avening Gloucestershire, England.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, and Emeric Pressburger)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Nov 10, 2018 From The Stop Button

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp runs two and three-quarters hours and takes place over forty years. The former?s passage is sublime, the latter?s is subtle. Directors Powell and Pressburger bookend the film in the present, then flashback. The lead at the start of the film is James McKechnie. He?... Read full article


Age of Consent (1969, )

on Apr 13, 2011 From The Stop Button

With Age of Consent, Powell bewilders. His approach to James Mason and Helen Mirren?s dramatic arcs is excellent, but then he includes this terrible comedy material. He?s got a bunch of slapstick in an otherwise very gentle drama. Mason is a successful artist who feels like a sellout so he runs off ... Read full article


’s Peeping Tom (1960): Take Me to Your Cinema!

By Amy on Nov 30, -0001 From Random Pictures

Part of The British Invasion Blogathon. I first saw this peculiar film about ten years ago, sometime when I was still in grad school. I can?t remember why; I must have stumbled across it at the very fine Four Star Video Heaven, which is?somewhat miraculously?still in business. Neither am I sure why ... Read full article


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1978: The BFI held a complete retrospective showing all the extant works of Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The book "Powell, Pressburger and Others" by Ian Christie was published to accompany this.

2002: The Donostia-San Sebastián film festival included a retrospective showing 43 films by Powell. This was the largest number of his films that has ever been seen in one place -- so far.

When he was in Crete to prepare the set of Night Ambush (1957) he wore a kilt. Seeing that, the inhabitants of the island thought he was "a Scottish general asking odd questions about partisans".

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