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Posts Tagged "Michael Powell"
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Peeping Tom **** (1960, Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley) – Classic Movie Review 605
Director Michael Powell’s 1960 colour British psychological horror-thriller shocker Peeping Tom is an eye-opening insider’s look at voyeurism and the mechanics of the film-making process, disguised as a lurid psychological thriller. This nightmarishly disturbing horror movie is […]
A Matter of Life and Death [Stairway to Heaven] ***** (1946, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey ) – Classic Movie Review 604
‘This is a story of two worlds the one we know and another which exists only in the mind of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war. Any resemblance to […]
A Canterbury Tale **** (1944, Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet) – Classic Movie Review 603
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1944 wartime film tells an extremely mysterious and engaging story about a British tank soldier called Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price in his debut), an American Army sergeant (John Sweet) […]
Black Narcissus ***** (1947, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu) – Classic Movie Review 602
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s extraordinary 1947 film Black Narcissus, about five Anglo-Catholic nuns who have set up a school and infirmary in a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff in […]
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ***** (1943, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook) – Classic Movie Review 599
Writer-producer-director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s unique, warm-hearted 1943 epic drama The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a master-crafted jewel in the crown of British cinema as one of the nation’s best ever […]
The Red Shoes ***** (1948, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina, Frederick Ashton) – Classic Movie Review 337
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s double Oscar-winning 1948 masterwork film The Red Shoes maintains its reputation as the best and most beloved of all dance movies. The 22-year-0ld Moira Shearer is a marvel. Writer-producer-directors Michael […]
The Thief of Bagdad ***** (1940, Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, Rex Ingram, John Justin) – Classic Movie Review 39
Remaking Douglas Fairbanks Sr’s 1924 silent movie classic, The Thief of Bagdad, producer Alexander Korda’s brilliantly thrilling and gorgeous 1940 Arabian Nights fantasy gem The Thief of Bagdad overflows with dazzling magic, eye-popping designs and […]