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An Appreciation – Black Narcissus
At first glance, the premise of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s film Black Narcissus (1947) was one that I was not entirely excited to see. The story about a group of nuns sent out to the high hilltops of the Himalayan Mountains to establish a…
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Looking, Hearing, Spying
In the latest episode of Mark Cousins’s The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a TV show airing here in the UK at the moment, it was suggested that sight—the fulfillment that comes from seeing something—is one of the key underlying themes of the Hollywood films of the…
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An Appreciation – The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s masterpiece The Red Shoes (1948) is a film that has grown on me over time. I remember watching it years ago, and admiring it for what it was, but not entirely loving it. As time passed, I found myself somehow…
READ MOREFilm Review – Black Swan
In his latest film, director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, and The Wrestler) creates a psychoactive, sexual thriller that, like his previous films, taps into the raw emotion of human obsession. Black Swan tells the story of Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman),…
READ MORETop Horror Films – #30 – Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom 1960; directed by Michael Powell; screenplay by Leo Marks Jeremy: Peeping Tom is one of the most controversial, excessive, and devastating movies ever made, let alone one of the best horror movies. It completely shocked the movie world to the core when it…
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