Nice. Powell's such a genius--why isn't he a household name? He should be.
Ben, I also love some of his lesser known stuff a lot, like "The Small Back Room" and "A Canterbury Tale" and even "Tales Of Hoffman". Wondering: what are your favorites? (or is that a stupid question, given the above pix...)
Well, I'm working my way through The Archers's filmography. Part of the joy (at least for me) is the fact that I have to work for these movies-- I can't just Netflix them, I have to track the bastards down. That's a long way of saying that there's much left to see. Small Back Room was the most recent film I found and I thought it was such a wonderfully atypical film from P&P. I really loved it. Still need to see Canterbury. Need to watch Hoffman all the way through. Sad confession: I made it 40 or so minutes in and started to choke. It's almost too rich and colorful and over-the-top. As for my favorite of favorites-- I go with Narcissus (closely followed by Red Shoes, Matter of Life and Death, I Know Where I'm Going!, Small Back Room, ah hell... followed by all of them, really...)
Yeah, fantastic films, all of those. I'm also irrationally attached to Peeping Tom, Blimp and Thief Of Bagdad. I saw Tales Of Hoffman in a restored print on the big screen, and I like how it's self-consciously operatic and baroque and gonzo (which makes sense, I guess, given its source). I also have a buncha stuff I've taped off TCM over the years that I haven't seen yet: Ill Met By Moonlight, One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing, etc. The List--it never ends.
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Powell's such a genius--why isn't he a household name? He should be.
Ben, I also love some of his lesser known stuff a lot, like "The Small Back Room" and "A Canterbury Tale" and even "Tales Of Hoffman". Wondering: what are your favorites? (or is that a stupid question, given the above pix...)
And that lipstick scene in Black Narcissus has got to be one of my all-time spine tinglers. (No horror movie can match that).
Well, I'm working my way through The Archers's filmography. Part of the joy (at least for me) is the fact that I have to work for these movies-- I can't just Netflix them, I have to track the bastards down. That's a long way of saying that there's much left to see.
Small Back Room was the most recent film I found and I thought it was such a wonderfully atypical film from P&P. I really loved it.
Still need to see Canterbury. Need to watch Hoffman all the way through. Sad confession: I made it 40 or so minutes in and started to choke. It's almost too rich and colorful and over-the-top.
As for my favorite of favorites-- I go with Narcissus (closely followed by Red Shoes, Matter of Life and Death, I Know Where I'm Going!, Small Back Room, ah hell... followed by all of them, really...)
Yeah, fantastic films, all of those.
I'm also irrationally attached to Peeping Tom, Blimp and Thief Of Bagdad. I saw Tales Of Hoffman in a restored print on the big screen, and I like how it's self-consciously operatic and baroque and gonzo (which makes sense, I guess, given its source).
I also have a buncha stuff I've taped off TCM over the years that I haven't seen yet: Ill Met By Moonlight, One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing, etc.
The List--it never ends.
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