PowellPressburger — settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:PowellPressburger @settima@mograph.social Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:22:47 +0200 Black Narcissus (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1947) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/black-narcissus-1947 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Black Narcissus (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1947)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 29/div div class="occasion" National Lipstick Day/div div class="img" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle image/summary Black Narcissus (1947)/div div class="caption" detailssummary spoiler warning: click to toggle caption/summary In one of the film's most haunting scenes, Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) transforms herself using lipstick (via). DP: Jack Cardiff./div div class="txt" High up in the Himalayas, Christian nuns attempt to found a school and hospital in a Raja's former palace. The palace, decorated with ancient erotic murals and run by the attractive Englishman Mr Dean, becomes an increasingly impossible to resist source of secular lust for the chaste Sisters.\ "Do you think it's a good thing to let her feel important?" ### – Sister Clodagh\ ##### With Jack Cardiff's sweeping cinematography and #Technicolor splendour, Black Narcissus establishes a stark contrast between the Sisters dour piety, the luminance of the Himalayan landscape, and the spellbinding pull of worldly desire. The bewitching #lipstick scene, set in a dimly lit space, works as well as it does precisely because of the scene's photography. That red smear, like blood pulsating from a fresh wound, becomes a deeply unsettling, vulgar gesture./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalLipstickDay #lipstick #MichaelPowell #EmericPressburger #PowellPressburger #TheArchers #RumerGodden #JackCardiff #DeborahKerr #KathleenByron #BrianEasdale #red #colours #religion #nuns #makeup #drama #BookAdaptation #UK #1940s/div /section ]]>

Black Narcissus (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1947)

Jul

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National Lipstick Day

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Black Narcissus (1947)

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In one of the film's most haunting scenes, Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) transforms herself using lipstick (via). DP: Jack Cardiff.

High up in the Himalayas, Christian nuns attempt to found a school and hospital in a Raja's former palace. The palace, decorated with ancient erotic murals and run by the attractive Englishman Mr Dean, becomes an increasingly impossible to resist source of secular lust for the chaste Sisters.

“Do you think it's a good thing to let her feel important?”

– Sister Clodagh

With Jack Cardiff's sweeping cinematography and #Technicolor splendour, Black Narcissus establishes a stark contrast between the Sisters dour piety, the luminance of the Himalayan landscape, and the spellbinding pull of worldly desire. The bewitching #lipstick scene, set in a dimly lit space, works as well as it does precisely because of the scene's photography. That red smear, like blood pulsating from a fresh wound, becomes a deeply unsettling, vulgar gesture.

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/black-narcissus-1947 Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:58:28 +0200 A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1944) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/a-canterbury-tale-1944-0svs <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1944)/div div class="month" May/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 7/div div class="occasion" National Paste Up Day/div div class="img" A Canterbury Tale (1944)/div div class="caption" Thomas Colpeper, JP (Eric Portman) and Alison (Sheila Sim), her hair still wet from washing out the glue, observing her in a tall mirror. DP: Erwin Hillier./div div class="txt" ##### In a strange other #England – in the village of Chillingbourne to be precise – a train pulls into the station. On board are several people on their way to #Canterbury.\ "You're not dreaming." ### – Thomas Colpeper, JP\ ##### When Alison disembarks, believing she arrived at the pilgrim's town, a stranger pours #glue in her hair. She's the eleventh, the policeman said. It's the glue man, the townsfolk know. Like the pilgrims of #Chaucer's poem, Alison and her fellow stranded travellers journey towards the closure of this mystifying case./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalPasteUpDay #MichaelPowell #EmericPressburger #PowellPressburger #TheArchers #SheilaSim #EricPortman #JohnSweet #DennisPrice #AllanGray #ErwinHillier #drama #war #propaganda #religion #FilmNoir #mystery #Canterbury #Kent #UK #1940s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell + Emeric Pressburger, 1944)

May

7

National Paste Up Day

A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Thomas Colpeper, JP (Eric Portman) and Alison (Sheila Sim), her hair still wet from washing out the glue, observing her in a tall mirror. DP: Erwin Hillier.

In a strange other #England – in the village of Chillingbourne to be precise – a train pulls into the station. On board are several people on their way to #Canterbury.

“You're not dreaming.”

– Thomas Colpeper, JP

When Alison disembarks, believing she arrived at the pilgrim's town, a stranger pours #glue in her hair. She's the eleventh, the policeman said. It's the glue man, the townsfolk know. Like the pilgrims of #Chaucer's poem, Alison and her fellow stranded travellers journey towards the closure of this mystifying case.

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