It’s the Summer of Powell and Pressburger in New York
Toward the end of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “Black Narcissus” (1947), set at a convent high in the Himalayas, the crazed Sister Ruth sneaks up behind her perceived nemesis, Sister Clodagh, who is ringing the convent’s cliffside bell, and gives her a good shove. The scene, a classic in the Powell-Pressburger canon, is remarkable … Read more