Here what happened, he was listing some of his favorite films, and A Matter of Life and Death came up, and it turned me into full-on Powell and Pressburger fanboy mode, so I told him I wanted to shake his hand for that, and I said that they are some of my favorite filmmakers, and then he started listing I Know Where I'm Going and The Red Shoes, and I threw out Black Narcissus and Peeping Tom, and he threw out some, and I threw out some, and then he talked about how obviously Powell was so influential on Scorsese, and I talked about TALES OF HOFFMAN being an influence on Ridley Scott for Blade Runner.
Basically speed dating geek ritualizing.