Michael Powell
FilmmakerKnown for: The Red Shoes (1948), Black Narcissus (1947), Peeping Tom (1960)
Michael Powell's collaboration with the screenwriter Emeric Pressburger — as The Archers — produced The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951): a body of work that treated Technicolor as an expressive rather than a representational tool and achieved an operatic intensity unmatched in British cinema. His solo Peeping Tom (1960) — a film about a serial killer who murders his victims while filming them — was so viciously reviewed that it effectively ended his commercial career. Martin Scorsese has cited Powell as the most important influence on his own filmmaking.
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Panavision
The Panaflex Gold is a 35mm motion picture camera produced by Panavision, a company that manufactures equipment exclusively for rental to productions. Its near-silent operation and compatibility with Panavision's proprietary anamorphic and spherical lens systems made it a standard for Hollywood features from the 1980s onward. Christopher Nolan and many other directors continue to use Panavision equipment for productions shot on film.
“Powell's later productions used Panavision equipment; his commitment to the formal possibilities of widescreen cinema, developed through his Technicolor work of the 1940s, continued into his subsequent projects. His use of Panavision and his thinking about anamorphic composition are discussed in "A Life in Movies" (1986), his autobiography.”
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