From Black Narcissus (1947).
Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus (1947).
Kathleen Byron in Black Narcissus (1947). Sorry, but no matter how metal you are, you will never be this metal.
Helen Mirren in Michael Powell's Age of Consent (1969).
From Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
Kathleen Byron in Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus (1947).
Wendy Hiller in Powell and Pressburger's I Know Where I'm Going! (1945).
Walter Elias Disney
(December 5, 1901 – 15 December 1966)
"The only genius in films was Walt Disney."
—Michael Powell
From Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
"For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over. The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art." —Michael Powell
"Never get out of the goddamn boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way." That quote forever reminds me of Sister Ruth and Black Narcissus, which, when you think about it, is basically Apocalypse Now. With nuns.