EXHIBIT 24.1
 
                        UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE COMPANY
 
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY
 
  Know all men by these presents, that each director and officer of United
Artists Theatre Company whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints
Scott M. Shaw, Kurt C. Hall and Ralph E. Hardy and each of them, with full
power to act without the other, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and
agents, with full and several power of substitution, for him and in his name,
place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any or all amendments,
including post-effective amendments, and supplements to the registration
statement on Form S-4 to be filed initially with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on or about June 16, 1998, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents and each
of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully
to all intents and purposes as they or he might or could do in person, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of
them, or their or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.
 
Dated as of: June 16, 1998
 
                    NAME                                  TITLE
 
              /s/ Kurt C. Hall                President, Chief Executive
    -------------------------------------      Officer and Director
                KURT C. HALL
 
             /s/ Trent J. Carman              Senior Vice President, Chief
    -------------------------------------     Financial Officer and
               TRENT J. CARMAN                Treasurer
 
              /s/ John W. Boyle               Chairman of the Board and
    -------------------------------------     Director
                JOHN W. BOYLE
 
       /s/ Albert J. Fitzgibbons, III         Director
    -------------------------------------
         ALBERT J. FITZGIBBONS, III
 
           /s/ James J. Burke, Jr.            Director
    -------------------------------------
             JAMES J. BURKE, JR.
 
              /s/ Scott M. Shaw               Director
    -------------------------------------
                SCOTT M. SHAW
 
              /s/ Robert F. End               Director
    -------------------------------------
                ROBERT F. END
 
             /s/ Michael L. Pade              Director
    -------------------------------------
               MICHAEL L. PADE