Michael Powell: Early Works Blu-ray New Release Dr Josephine Botting and Vic

Dr Josephine Botting and Vic Pratt (The Night of the Party)

The great director speaks frankly of both his professional and personal life

The esteemed film professor offers an appreciation of the Powell & Pressburger film which established a sub-genre of romantic movies

Lewis also looks at the film's production history revealing real gangster backstories and how its success would alter Hollywood

and rare imagery

Michael Powell: Early Works Blu-ray New Release Dr Josephine Botting and Vic'Michael Powell: Early Works' (1931 1944) BFI Blu ray Throughout the 1930s, director Michael Powell honed his craft on a succession of modestly budgeted feature films produced under the United Kingdoms screen quota system. Many of these titles remain lost but, those which survive, reveal a burgeoning talent that readily established Powell as one of British cinemas leading lights. This new 2 disc collection brings together five of those early films