Black Narcissus Articles

Deborah Kerr, pony, Michael Powell on the Black Narcissus set The Criterion Collection has posted a series of images providing a glimpse behind the scenes of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1947 classic Black Narcissus. Set in the Himalayas, this adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel was filmed entirely in Britain, chiefly at Pinewood Studios. Make sure to check it out here. In the beautifully nuanced [...]

Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons in David Lean's Great Expectations Jean Simmons is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month of June. Though never a major box-office draw, Simmons either starred or was featured in a number of the most important movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Among those are Laurence Olivier's Best Picture Oscar winner Hamlet (1948), Henry Koster's CinemaScope blockbuster The Robe (1953), [...]

Parvez Sharma's A Jihad for Love THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time The first film on the Film Snobbery list not featuring Judeo-Christian issues is, at #14, Satyajit Ray's Devi (1960), which deals with "the tragic implications of religious obsession in this dark drama of a man who believes his young daughter is an incarnation of a Hindu goddess." Among the [...]

Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]