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21 Essays: The Second Fantasy Dialogue by Lee... →
Cut to Hitchcock and Powell at the pub after a busy day filming Blackmail:
Hitchcock: “Alma approves of your proposal for a chase in the British Museum, Mr. Powell. And I approve of dropping our villain from a great height. Is there anything he can cling to after the glass shatters on the British Museum dome? Perhaps a metal bar? I should like to prolong his agony.”
Powell: “I could imagine...
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21 Essays: The First Fantasy Dialogue by Lee Price →
(Alfred Hitchcock enters the crowded bar.) Hitchcock: “I’m looking for Micky Powell. Has anyone seen him? Comic chap with a silly grin—it disguises his ambition. Ah, there he is… Mr. Powell, so good to see you after a hard day of filming.” Powell: “A hard day for whom? You don’t even look through the camera. Anyone can see you have the easiest job in the studio.” Hitchcock: “Blackmail...
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Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock, and Cinematic... →
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April 2012
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'I fell in love with Martin Scorsese's hero' →
Thelma Schoonmaker talks to Horatia Harold about her marriage to fellow filmmaker Michael Powell, the seminal director of cult thriller Peeping Tom
It was all fate. I’m not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I’ve had a lot of lucky breaks. The fact that I picked up the New York Times on that one day and saw an advertisement -‘Willing to train assistant film editor’, I...
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War Starts at Midnight
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US one-sheet for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. The idea behind this and the UK quad came from tearing away the old and finding the youth underneath, which is at the heart of the story. The final sketch was scribbled off to the side as an afterthought, but wound up being the starting point when a magazine-cover direction fell by the wayside.
March 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Daily Viewing. From "The Life and Death of Colonel... →
“Seeing Colonel Blimp strictly in the terms of for-the-war-effort propaganda is a terrible mistake,” warns Jaime N Christley in Slant. “There isn’t a jingoistic, early-to-mid-20th-century ‘I dare say old chap’ moment or sentiment in the film that Powell and Pressburger fail to elevate to a broader, frequently mythic, perspective. All the same, the wars...
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August 2011
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Black Narcissus by Walter Dukes
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July 2011
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WatchVideo Essay: Art Goes On Forever - A Tribute to Powell and Pressburger
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June 2011
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Powell - Tavernier
I remember meeting Nicholas Ray in Paris toward the end of his life. He was a very sad figure who was only looking at his old films, talking about the past and very much a prisoner of his own image, in addition to being a prisoner of drugs and other things. I remember thinking that I didn’t want to be like that when I got older. I wanted to be like Michael Powell or Andre De Toth, who were still...
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“My favorite film of all time is ‘A Matter of Life and Death,’...”
– Michael Sheen
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May 2011
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Deborah Kerr An Actress in Search of an Author →
With poise alternating with rebelliousness, Kerr plays three different women in Colonel Blimp (while turning twenty-one on the set in 1942), each one essential to a storyline that extends from London and Berlin in 1902, during the Boer War, to World War II. News of the film being shot in the middle of the blitz, and daring to portray a German officer in a sympathetic light by contrasting his...