Critical Opinions
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| “ | Michael Powell's gift was that he saw things with terrible clarity. Perhaps his films have been waiting for DVD all along. | ” |
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—Entertainment Weekly |
| “ | There is not a British director, working in Britain, with as many worthwhile films to his credit as Michael Powell. | ” |
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—A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema |
British film critics gave the films of Powell and Pressburger a mixed reaction at the time, acknowledging their creativity but sometimes questioning their motivations and taste. For better or worse, The Archers were always out of step with mainstream British cinema.
From the 1970s onwards, British critical opinion began to revise this lukewarm assessment, with their first BFI retrospective in 1970 and another in 1978. They are now seen as playing a key part in the history of British film, and have become influential and iconic for many film-makers of later generations, such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and George A. Romero, among others.
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