Even the fandom of Martin Scorsese can't push this appreciation of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger beyond an introductory level
Michael Powell was born in the coastal English county of Kent. He started in the silent-era film industry of the 1920s, working countless studio odd jobs before he was promoted, in the 1930s, to directing low-budget “quota quickies,” of which he made almost two dozen.
Out of all the major American filmmakers, Scorsese is probably the most comfortable and credible at being a film-history talking head, and anyone who has heard him talk about his favorite films in documentaries, interviews, or old DVD special features is probably familiar with the story of how he discovered cinema as an asthmatic child in postwar Little Italy, cooped up indoors watching broadcasts of British and Italian movies on his family’s little black-and-white TV.
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