“Ah, how one is starved of Technicolor up there!” sighs an angel in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death as a red flower brings life into the world. In that film, wartime ...

This image comes from the official trailer for "Black Narcissus," owned by FX. If you took Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall out of the snowed-in haunting of “The Shining” and replaced them with ...

Beautiful but melancholic, it's hard to say that this new contemplative incarnation of the classic film justifies its three-hour running time. As we saw with Netflix’s remake of “Rebecca” a few months ...

When “Black Narcissus” was released in 1947, the film was hailed as a cinematic masterpiece for its Technicolor visuals. It was also condemned by the Catholic Church for its salacious premise ...

A convent of nuns in the Himalayas find their cliff-top monastery provides little succor from class strife, disease, sexual repression, psychosis, and the terrible weight of the past.

Aisling Franciosi, photographs courtesy of Olivia McDowell, with styling courtesy of Rebecca Corbin-Murray, hair by Clara Leonard and makeup by Cyndle Komarovski. Special thanks to Polaroid. The ...

Taking on a story immortalized in a landmark 1947 film, this version never quite finds a voice of its own. In retrospect, it may have been a mistake to watch the original Archers film production of ...