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Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 12-25-13
Replies: 74
You Need a Shot of Michael Powell
Posted By Tacitus
Re: You Need a Shot of Michael Powell

I agree that it's an admirable film rather than, maybe, an essential one. Man, do I admire it though.

Also: Nuns!
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 06-01-11
Replies: 74
You Need a Shot of Michael Powell
Posted By Tacitus
I can't believe the premise of Alien but I still...

I can't believe the premise of Alien but I still love it...



I ordered the Criterion Edition DVD of Blimp this morning, as it happens. :)

I first saw it when I was a teenager and it...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 12-08-07
Replies: 74
You Need a Shot of Michael Powell
Posted By Tacitus
Re: You Need a Shot of Michael Powell

It might be pertinent to mention the star of two of the best loved Powell & Pressburger films, Blimp and Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr, who passed on a few months ago.

She was probably best...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 12-08-07
Replies: 74
You Need a Shot of Michael Powell
Posted By Tacitus
Re: You Need a Shot of Michael Powell

I'd put him above both. ;)

I love Powell's (& Pressburger's; not seen many of his early ones, to be honest) films. True visionaries in that new-fangled medium called 'colour'. With a 'u'. :p
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