My first print edition piece of 2008 is a review of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s “The Michael Powell Collection,” a two-disc set that oddly combines a magnificently restored version of the sublime 1946 Powell-Emeric Pressburger fantasy classic “A Matter of Life and Death” (best known to most people outside the U.K. as “Stairway to Heaven”) starring David Niven and Kim Hunter with Powell’s last film, the obscure “Age of Consent” (1969). The latter is most notable for its scenic attractions, namely Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and a nude, 22-year-old Helen Mirren in her feature debut. Presumably the Criterion Collection, which has issued the other Powell-Pressburger classics as special editions — “The Red Shoes,” “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,” “A Canterbury Tale,” “I Know Where I’m Going,” “Black Narcissus,” and “Tales of Hoffman” — will get around to its own Michael Powell collection some day.