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But, Black Narcissus uses colors to its advantage, and even more astounding is that almost the entire film was shot on a soundstage. A majority of it looks like it was shot on location ...
believes the flowers would be seen as a gesture of vanity, to which Sister Philippa questions whether they wouldn’t be proof of God’s glory. What this take on “Black Narcissus” does is ...
One becomes obsessed by her garden, planting it with flowers instead ... for the first ever Royal Film Performance. They quickly decided that shooting Black Narcissus in India would be too costly ...
Soon the place is teeming with flowers ... to them. Black Narcissus was surprisingly prescient – the year it was released, India achieved independence from British rule. The film wasn’t ...
In retrospect, it may have been a mistake to watch the original Archers film production of “Black Narcissus” before screening the limited series “Black Narcissus,” produced for FX and BBC One.
It could also be about a crisis of faith. Too long to be a movie and too short to satisfy as a miniseries, this “Black Narcissus” dabbles in being all of the above, and, alas, doesn’t fully ...
What’s not to love? This new retelling of Black Narcissus, the 1939 Rumer Godden novel that was turned into an Oscar-winning film starring Deborah Kerr in 1947, is utterly compelling ...
He says his single most unforgettable screening experience was watching a Technicolor nitrate print of the movie Black Narcissus. "So, people will compare them to an illuminated manuscript or ...