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By Tracey C (386) on 24 Aug 2010

Black Narcissus (1947) is a film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel of the same…

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By Kevin N (818) on 10 Aug 2010

The most edgy and exhilarating film by Powell and Pressburger, painted with stunning depth and color by the great Jack Cardiff…

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By Alex S (2,786) on 08 Aug 2010

There is a moment in this movie that freaked me out to no end and fittingly enough, it involved a vengeful nun on a rampage. Iâ…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 04 Aug 2010

A 1947 English film classic about the challenges of desire faced by some nuns in a new mission in the Himalayas…

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By Al M (1,263) on 04 Aug 2010

Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus is a beautiful example of technicolor flimmaking that transports the audience to a castle perched…

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By Ethan T (324) on 03 Aug 2010

A film a bout a bunch of nuns sounds terribly boring and unattractive to me…

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By Jamie T (429) on 01 Aug 2010

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's films are, at their best, unlike those of any other director, but in a subtle, almost intangible way…

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By Indi V (217) on 30 Jul 2010

The sets are the real starts of this movie, but Deborah Kerr's pretty good, too…

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By Tom B (1,265) on 30 Jul 2010

Margaret Rumer Godden wrote the book, Powell and Pressburger wrote and directed the film. What a great story, what a great film…

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By A.j. S (251) on 26 Jul 2010

With some of the most beautiful cinematography to ever be ingrained onto celluloid, writer and director team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger,…

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By Sandy K (384) on 24 Jul 2010

1947 classic that won Oscar for cinematography. A story of culture clash and a war of wills, but a bit melodramatic for my taste…

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By Christopher Long (186) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 21 Jul 2010

Colonial hubris nunsploitation = an unforgettable movie…

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By Andrew B (2,971) on 16 Jul 2010

Sister Ruth has to be up there on the list of Greatest Psychotic Nuns of Cinema…

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By Atlas O (68) on 04 Jul 2010

Shoots right to the top of my favorite films of all time…

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By Fred T (95) on 19 Jun 2010

Some of the most beautiful photography I've ever seen captured on film. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron should have been given Oscars for this film…

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By Matt K (1,446) on 17 Jun 2010

Not my favorite of theirs, but definitely a great movie. This film is so pretty…

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By Paul J (1,190) on 01 Jun 2010

A Powell & Pressburger masterpiece. Bold sexuality, luscious color photography, operatic and a daring story…

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By Nick A (1,097) on 13 May 2010

Behind perhaps only Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, Black Narcissus, another beyond-awe work of artistic philosophy from directorial partners…

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By Bodie D (4) on 05 May 2010

Do you like movies about nuns who move into a whorehouse in the Himalayas and begin to go insane...then you'll LOVE Black Narcissus…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 Mar 2010

The co-directors created from Rumer Godden's novel an extraordinary melodrama of repressed love and Forsterian Englishness - or rather Irishness…

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