[After Peeping Tom] When they got me on my own [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse. - Michael Powell

About Michael Powell

Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director. Via his partnership with Emeric Pressburger and their production company "The Archers", the two men wrote, produced and directed a series of British films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (US: Stairway to Heaven 1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His film Peeping Tom (1960), now considered a classic, was heavily vilified on first release seriously damaging his career. Many film-makers such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have cited Powell as an influence. In 1981, he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award along with Pressburger, the highest honour the British Academy of Film and Television Arts can give a filmmaker.

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