The film receives a dense and gorgeous Criterion transfer that allows its amazing aesthetic complexity to reach full ghostly bloom.
This unusually optimistic, and unsatisfying, Huston film receives competent, not especially memorable treatment from Twilight Time.
It should come as no surprise that the special features presented here run very Scorsese-heavy.
Black Narcissus impishly keeps watch over the Archers’ canon with a sunken, rabidly prismatic eye.
The film makes a persuasive case that Englishness can be defined by the love one has for the land and the country, rather than one’s birthplace.
Take Two #9: Love Affair (1939) & An Affair to Remember (1957), with Complaints About Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Superficial qualities aside, the movies are entirely the same, even line for line in many cases.
Black Narcissus, as with the remainder of Powell and Pressburger’s masterworks, is sound, hue, and shadow as holistic dramaturgy.
This is essential viewing for the dramatist’s fans, and anyone interested in tracing the rough-trod path to the phenomenon of My Fair Lady.
An Affair to Remember and a movie to treasure.
An Affair to Remember deserves better than to be the receptor of Meg Ryan’s crocodile tears.
“Baby, I don’t care.” But you do, Bob, and this set proves it.
Among favorite cinephile pet auteurs, no one’s reputation has had a rougher ride than that of Otto Preminger.
For cinephiles, the career of Preminger is their oyster. Bonjour Tristesse is the pearl.