Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
November 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 25
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (1)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (1)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 6
- Ratatouille (0)
- Secrets From Another Place (0)
- Black Narcissus (0)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (2)
- This Is England (0)
- Hail The Conquering Hero (0)
- American Gangster (0)
- Frozen (0)
- Paris Je T’Aime (0)
- Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (0)
- Shake Hands With The Devil (0)
- Fido (0)
- American Gangster (3)
- The Zero Effect (0)
- Trapped in the Closet (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Begotten (0)
- Saw IV (0)
- Lions for Lambs (0)
- Death of a President (0)
- Stranded (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- The Evil Dead (0)
- The Goonies (0)
- Cemetery of Terror (1)
Full Archive
Black Narcissus / UK / 1946
How Powell and Pressburger managed to become quite so commercially successful is something of a mystery to me, despite my belief that they are perhaps the finest creative team in cinema history. This is not quite the weirdest of the lot- A Canterbury Tale wears that crown- but it is a strange, perplexing film, rich in atmosphere and stunningly beautiful to look at, despite being filmed almost exclusively on the Pinewood backlot. Perhaps the greatest achievement here is making a film about nuns, in which nothing of great note really happens until the end, utterly riveting, and even terrifying: Black Narcissus feels almost like a horror film without the horror, an exploitation movie without the exploitation, brimming with all the seediness and gross, repressed sensuality that made Peeping Tom such a critical blow to Powell’s career. The difference is that here he keeps things in check, simmering just below the surface, equally disturbing but mercifully hidden.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: FlimFour
27 Nov 2007 11:35 AM | Submit Comment
