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	Black Narcissus: Criterion (1947)
		Black Narcissus is something of an odd bird, and it’s a hard movie to nail in words.
		I thought the movie was also well-acted, from the simmering restraint of Kerr’s Sister Clodagh, to the almost-but-not-quite-psychotic tone of Byron’s Sister Ruth.
		Black Narcissus appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /blacknarcissus.shtml (1634 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- BLACK NARCISSUS
		BLACK NARCISSUS was even acknowledged for its beauty at the time of its release, with master Technicolor cinematographer Jack Cardiff earning both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his work on the film.
		BLACK NARCISSUS tells the story of a small group of Anglican Nuns who are given the impossible task of setting up a school and dispensary in a mountaintop palace in India, which was once the home of the ruling general’s concubines.
		Blacks are accurately rendered, and the level of shadow detail is good for a color film from 1947.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/black-narcissus-dvd.htm (997 words)

	The DVD Journal: Black Narcissus: The Criterion Collection
		Black Narcissus, released in 1947, is based on the Rumer Godden novel, a story of repressed nuns — a loaded topic that takes masters to tell.
		Black Narcissus even has a tenuous relationship with horror films — hard to believe, but there are shots of an insane-looking Ruth that must have been inspired by Val Lewton, and influential on both Herk Harvey and George Romero (the latter a huge Powell-Pressburger fan).
		Black Narcissus may not have the riches of Criterion's The Red Shoes, but it is a solid disc from the most important (and probably the best) DVD producer.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/blacknarcissus.shtml (1542 words)

	Movie Whipping: Black Narcissus, 1947 -- from SpankingBlog.com by Narcissus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		I pretty much missed the golden age of movies that had lots of spanking and whipping in ‘em (although there was one nice sexual butt-wallop in Crank, the movie I saw last night).
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	Savant Review: Black Narcissus
		Black Narcissus is a challenging movie that feeds the eye and stimulates the senses.
		Older British movies (even many new ones) are as appallingly blind as American films to politics and the Third World, a tradition that Powell and Pressburger happily stay entirely outside.
		The old laser disc of Black Narcissus was a standout in the Criterion library, but the added extras on the new DVD are even better.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s179narciss.html (1296 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 25-6 MARCH 2001
		I used the(se) techniques in The King of Comedy and The Color of Money." Black Narcissus is an undisputed masterpiece - adapted from Rumer Godden's novel it tells the story of a Nunnery in India at the time of the Raj; an exotic Himalayan locale that gradually unsettles the Nuns in various ways.
		The psychosexual underpinnings of the story were daringly brought forth and the movie courted controversy with the Catholic church.
		Bunuel may not be everyone's cup of tea or filet mignon, but the beauty of Criterion is they make all movies in their extensive collection collectible - and when stored on a shelf together, present a formidable library of the best world cinema has to offer.
	www.dga.org /news/v25_6/dept_directorsondisk.php3 (1299 words)

	Black Narcissus (1947) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
		Black Narcissus (1947) is ranked the #453 best movie of all time.
		Martin Scorsese was once quoted as saying about his first viewing of Black Narcissus that he wasn't sure he'd seen the best film ever made, but he'd seen something revolutionary.
		Widely hailed as one of the most beautiful films ever shot, Black Narcissus is a strange tale of Anglican nuns who establish a convent in an extremely remote region of the Himalayas.
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	Notherby's :: Black Narcissus
		Comment: This movie has long been one of my all-time favorites and I was thrilled to find it playing for the first time last night on one of our cable stations.
		It was filmed in technicolor and the scenes of the mountains and the surrounding countryside are truly gorgeous, though if you have a fear of heights you may want to cover your eyes for a few of the scenes.
		When she sheds her chaste white habit for a modern, form-fitting fl dress, it seems to burn dark red; and her every movement is agitated, over-stimulated, both desperate & lustful at once.
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	Black Narcissus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For other uses of Narcissus, see Narcissus (disambiguation).
		Black Narcissus (1947) is a film by the British director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger, based on the novel by Rumer Godden.
		The film was made mainly at Pinewood Studios with some scenes shot in Leonardslee Gardens, West Sussex, the home of an Indian army retiree which had appropriate trees and plants for the Indian setting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Narcissus (222 words)

	Black Narcissus Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Made in 1947 in vibrant Technicolor, Black Narcissus is widely regarded as one of the most beautiful films ever made.
		Black Narcissus is also often called one of the most erotic movies of its time and it simmers quite provocatively, especially near the end.
		I wanted more information on subjects like the man and his two sons who did all of the paintings for Black Narcissus, and about how Powell and Pressburger worked together in a partnership that resulted in so many outstanding movies (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven, Tales of Hoffman, etc.).
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=1925 (804 words)

	Deborah Kerr - Scottish Rose - Black Narcissus
		The 1947 film, based on a novel by Rumer Godden, was so startlingly beautiful, intense yet quietly dramatic and fiercely sexual, that it managed to get censored at the behest of the Catholic Legion of Decency and, yet, even in that censored form, earned a brace of Academy Awards.
		The film was startlingly unusual for 1947: its plot centers around a group of Anglican nuns who, due to their own psychological and sexual shortcomings, fail to found a convent at the foot of the Himalayas.
		BLACK NARCISSUS, a radical departure from the filmmaking duo's ever-changing norm, concerns a group of Anglican nuns in the Himalayas who seek to maintain a school and hospital.
	www.meredy.com /deborahkerr/blacknarcissus.html (1294 words)

	Black Narcissus - DVD Movie Central
		Black Narcissus is a cinematic masterpiece…at once strikingly beautiful and hauntingly compelling, creating a sensual world almost beyond comprehension and placing a small convent of nuns right in the middle of it.
		Powell and Pressburger’s filmography has nurtured the careers of many young aspiring movie makers, from Martin Scorsese to Brian De Palma, and to be sure, any serious or self-respecting student of the medium should not miss the privilege of exploring these unique, engrossing, emotional and highly technical masterpieces.
		Black Narcissus is Powell and Pressburger at their very best…nobody who loves movies should miss the chance to see this remarkable film, especially with this top notch DVD from Criterion.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/black_narcissus.htm (1596 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Black Narcissus (1947) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Due to the current media saturation with web cams, CCTV footage, and docu-soap television, there is always the danger that you may find your self desensitised to the extremes of human emotion.
		Finding themselves disturbed by all manner of natural phenomena - extremes of temperature, weather, and a maverick local expat's rugged charms - it is only a matter of time before hardship and temptation gradually draw the women away from their vocation, and they descend into doubt, jealousy and madness.
		"Black Narcissus" is a masterly exploration of the dangers of ambition, British reserve, and unbridled emotion.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/09/25/black_narcissus_review.shtml (337 words)

	DVD : Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All the elements of cinematic arts are perfectly fused in Powell and Pressburger's fascinating study of the age-old conflict between the spirit and the flesh, set against the grandeur of the snowcapped peaks of Kanchenjunga.
		This movie has long been one of my all-time favorites and I was thrilled to find it playing for the first time last night on one of our cable stations.
		She and the group of nuns who accompany her soon make the acquaintance of a local Englishman who proves to be of invaluable help to them, even while...
	meseta.net /B00004XQN4/Black_Narcissus-Criterion_Collection.shtml (750 words)

	Black Narcissus - Moviefone
		Black Narcissus (1947) I have seen Black Narcissus in three different ways.
		First I saw it in a movie theater when I was 7 or 8 with my mother.
		Black Narcissus Black Narcissus: Disturbed nuns face temptation; one of the high points of color design and lighting in cinema.
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		Black Narcissus was written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
		A supremely skilled technical crew worked on Black Narcissus, and their efforts are best realized in the thrilling, and even shocking, final quarter of the film.
		Black Narcissus is a film of staggering visual beauty and spiritual challenges.
	www.dvdmon.com /videoreview.asp?varGenre=All&keyVideoID=317 (924 words)

	Untitled
		However, it was his next film The Spy in Black (1939) which would prove to be significant since it was on this that he first worked with screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, an emigree Hungarian Jew.
		Black Narcissus (1947), which stars Deborah Kerr, tells the story of an order of missionary nuns who live high on a windswept bluff in the Himalayas in a building once used for a harem.
		Probably The Archers' best known and best loved movie is The Red Shoes (1948), which tells the backstage story of a young dancer who earns the scorn of the authorative impressario figure who oversees her when she falls for the composer of a ballet she is performing.
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	DVDLaser: the largest database of DVD reviews on the web
		The 1947 film is about a poorly managed group of Anglican nuns who attempt to establish a convent in an abandoned cliffside seraglio high in the Himalayas.
		Scorsese’s hyperactive input is a bit daft, but his thoughts provide the perfect supplement to Powell’s sleepy-voiced anecdotes, and the presentation (edited from a real conversation into a lecture) is a far richer enhancement to one’s appreciation of the film than a straight scholarly talk would have been.
		Black Narcissus was filmed entirely in the British Isles and mostly on soundstages, but one never loses the feeling that the locations are Asian (the casting of the supporting players also contributes effectively to this illusion), even when the paintings outside the windows look obvious.
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	Amazon.com: Black Narcissus - Criterion Collection: DVD: Deborah Kerr,Flora Robson,Jean Simmons,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		All the elements of cinematic arts are perfectly fused in Powell and Pressburger's fascinating study of the age-old conflict between the spirit and the flesh, set against the grandeur of the snowcapped peaks of Kanchenjunga.
		Thanks to Criterion, the expressed sensuality of "Black Narcissus" - the courtship of Kanchi (18 year-old Jean Simmons) and the Young General (Sabu), including a notorious dance scene - is not available to us, and a significant element of the story is missing.
		Black Narcissus, from Britain's brilliant director/writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a genuinely erotic masterpiece about Anglican nuns in the Himalayas (shot at Pinewood studio but the matte work is so good it feels like location work).
	www.amazon.com /Black-Narcissus-Collection-Deborah-Kerr/dp/B00004XQN4 (1513 words)

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	Black Narcissus (1947)
		Archers pairing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel Black Narcissus.
		Set in the fantastic Palace of Mopu, which faces a five-mile-high mountain in the Himalayas, comes a band of nuns to open a Anglican school and hospital in a one-time bordello.
		And the young general, with his jewels and "Black Narcissus" perfume, is upsetting the calm of the convent by courting Kanchi.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/m_powell/filmography/003.html (377 words)

	Black Narcissus (1947 Movie) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Filmed in fl and white on the remote island of Foula, The Edge of the World (1937) is the first film by British director Michael Powell (1905-90) to foreshadow his more mature, richly idiosyncratic visions such as I Know Where I’m Going (1945) and Black Narcissus (1947).
		But Edge was a film that Powell had nurtured for years and, though it’s not as technically smooth or even as coherent as his later ones, it still has what was to become his trademark mix of visually abstracted naturalism, unemphasized mysticism and unexpected eroticism.
		The movie tells of the economic death of the small island of Hirta (the fictional name for Foula), of how changing times force its small population of 100 or so fisherman, shepherds and their families to eventually evacuate to the mainland.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=51602 (271 words)

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		It's the Hans Christian Andersen fable about a young girl who puts on a pair of red slippers that will not allow her to stop dancing; she must dance and dance, in a grotesque mockery of happiness, until she is dead.
		Pressburger had written a draft of a ballet film in the 1930s, and after the war, after their enormous success with "Black Narcissus" (1947), which made a star of Deborah Kerr and won Oscars for cinematography and art direction, they had another look at it.
		She didn't take movies seriously, waited a year before agreeing to star in "The Red Shoes," went back to the ballet, and possibly never knew how good she was in the movie, how powerfully she related to the camera.
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		Movie review of andquot;1947andquot; (andquot;Earthandquot; as it is called outside of the Indian subcontinent), based on Bapsi Sidhwa's critically acclaimed English novel, Cracking India.
		Brief biographies of US architects from 1897 to 1947 are transcribed from archived obituaries of American Art Annual and Who's Who In American Art.
		3, 1947, Newark, N.J., U.S. American novelist, essayist, translator, and poet whose complex mystery novels are often concerned with the search for identity and personal meaning.
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	Amazon.ca: DVD: Black Narcissus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Made over fifty years ago BLACK NARCISSUS could be considered significantly ahead of its time in its unique use of narration, and subject.
		One day, while I was washing the dishes, I turned on the TV and started flipping through channels, landing on "Black Narcissus", which was just ending.
		The movie can be rather strange at times; I found May Hallatt's character to be overdone in certain scenes, but at other times she is brilliant.
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	Black Narcissus (1947 movie)
		Black Narcissus is a 1947 British film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, about a group of Anglican nuns who travel to a remote location in the Himalayas to set up a school and hospital, only to find themselves increasingly distracted by the beauty of their surroundings.
		Tensions mount when one of the nuns develops a crush on the smug and disrespectful Englishman whom they use to communicate with the indigenous people.
		The film won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bl/Black_Narcissus.html (82 words)

	The SF Site: In Memoriam 2003
		Kidd was married to James Blish from 1947 to 1963, during which time she occasionally collaborated with Blish on a story.
		He believed that part of the problem was that his protagonists were fl.
		Bradbury was born Marguerite McClure and married author Ray Bradbury on September 27, 1947.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/steven168.htm (6380 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Black Narcissus Movie Review
		And, well, 1947's Black Narcissus (for which Powell shares writing, producing, and directing credit with longtime collaborator Emeric Pressburger) is even more visually stunning than Peeping Tom.
		Black Narcissus may seem like an overwrought soap opera at times, but the dramatic tension builds to a chilling climactic sequence that is nothing short of a masterpiece.
		The original theatrical trailer, which is a hoot, is on the disc, along with a collection of behind-the-scenes production stills (including shots that didn't make the final cut).
	www.flipsidemovies.com /blacknarcissus.html (685 words)

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