Michael Powell (1905 - 1990)

English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger

* September 30, 1905 Bekesbourne, Kent, England, UK
 as Michael Latham Powell
 February 19, 1990 Avening, Gloucestershire, England, UK



Books by Michael Powell

Michael Powell
A Life in Movies
London, 1986

Michael Powell
Mllion-Dollar Movie
1993

Books on Michael Powell

David Lazar (ed.) Michael Powell David Lazar (ed.)
Michael Powell, Interviews
Jackson, 2003

Scott Salwolke
The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers
Lanham, Md., & London, 1997

James Howard Michael Powell James Howard
Michael Powell
London, 1996

Ian Christie
Arrows of desire, The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
London; Boston, 1994

Franz Gottler (ed.)
Living Cinema, Powell and Pressburger
München, 1982

Ian Christie
Powell, Pressburger and Others
London, 1978

Kevin Gough-Yates
Michael Powell
Brussels, 1973

Kevin Gough-Yates
Michael Powell in collaboration with Emeric Pressburger
London, 1971

Books with substantial mentioning of Michael Powell

Dave Kehr Movies that mattered Dave Kehr
Movies that mattered, More reviews from a transformative decade
Chicago; London, 2017

John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh
The Encyclopedia of Filmmakers, Volume Two
New York, NY, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2. Directors
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris (editor) The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia Andrew Sarris (editor)
The St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia
Detroit - New York - Toronto - London, 1998

Ellen Oumano
Film Forum, Thirty-Five Top Filmmakers Discuss Their Craft
New York, 1985

Ann Lloyd (editor) Movies of the Forties Ann Lloyd (editor)
Movies of the Forties
London, 1982

Books with an entry on Michael Powell

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1991, A Survey of the Films of 1990
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1991

Articles on Michael Powell

Damon Wise, A Matter of Powell and Pressburger, in: Empire, nr. 275, 2012 pp. 82-91

Andrew Moor, No Place Like Home: Powell, Pressburger Utopia, in: Robert Murphy (ed.), The British Cinema Book, London, 2009

Richard Combs, A river runs through it, in: Filmcomment, nr. 3, 2005 pp. 36-41

William K. Everson, Michael Powell, in: Films in Review, vol. 31, 1980 pp. 415-417, 445