| [filmlover-l] Movie this wednesday: Black
Narcissus |
Monday, October 31, 2011
1:10:14 AM |
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tbco@mtu.edu |
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filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
For this week, we are showing a British classic, "Black Narcissus,"
directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (more details
below). We are showing a blu-ray restored version.
Please feel free to pass the message around and invite your friends.
The more the merrier. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Date and Time: November 2, Wednesday, 6:30-9pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Title: Black Narcissus
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Partial List of Actors:
Deborah Kerr
Kathleen Byron
David Farrar
Flora Robson
Jenny Laird
Judith Furse
Jean Simmons
Esmond Knight
Sabu
US Rating: not rated (I think PG13)
Language: English
Length: 100 mins
Media: BluRay, color
Summary: (by garykmcd via www.imdb.com)
"Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other
nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas.
It's a difficult journey and their new house is a
ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that
had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood
many years before. They soon establish a school
and an infirmary though the local General's agent,
Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly
ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient
doesn't recover. The location, the culture and the
mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on
the Sisters..."
My Comments:
Considered a classic, the restored version is very
good, specially considering it was made in 1947.
My main problem remains to be the casting of
British actors to play native Indians (makes me
cringe sometimes). On the other hand, the
acting by the nuns, specially by Kerr and Byron
are very good.
It is interesting to see David Farrar be the only guy
around
the nuns, who wears short shorts and open shirts,
and become the sex object instead of the other way around.
...I wonder how the churches responded to this movie
when it came out.
