Los Angeles Escorts: Wilmington on DVDs
Extras: Commentary by critic Ian Christie, with Shearer, Goring, Cardiff, Easdale and Red Shoes admirer Martin Scorsese; restoration demo by Scorsese; Making of documentary; Interviews with Powell and his wife (and Scorsese’s editor) Thelma Schoonmaker; photos and memorabilia; audio recordings of Jeremy Irons reading Andersen‘s fairytale and excerpts from the Powell-Pressburger novelization of the film; an animated film taken from Heckroth’s storyboards; trailer; booklet with essays by David Ehrenstein and Robert Gitt.
Black Narcissus (Three and a Half Stars)
U.K.; Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947 (Criterion)
The most visually beautiful and stylistically remarkable of all the Archers films: the stunning Powell-Pressburger adaptation of Rumer Godden‘s novel of temptation, love and madness in an Indian convent for British Catholic nuns, in an ex-brothel called The Palace built on a towering Himalayan mountaintop.
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