Heaven’s Waiting Room
Alex Harvey: When Powell met Pressburger, 20 March 2025
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger
edited by Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith.
BFI, 206 pp., £30, October 2023,978 1 83871 917 3 Show More
edited by Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith.
BFI, 206 pp., £30, October 2023,
“... In Peeping Tom (1960), Michael Powell’s brutal parable on the nature of film, a woman confronts a young cameraman, Mark, in his darkroom. Mrs Stephens, who is blind, realises there’s something disturbing about Mark, something linked to his compulsive filmmaking. ‘I’m listening to my instinct now. And it says: “All this filming isn’t healthy ... ”
