Movie Roulette Tuesday: The Podcast

Black Narcissus

• The MRT Crew • Season 4 • Episode 18

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We continue our theme of "Movies That Couldn't Be Made Today" with one that literally couldn't (for TECH-nical reasons). . .  we are watching something filmed in vibrant, beautiful, and now extinct TECHNICOLOR!!!  Our shining example of this format is 1947's "Black Narcissus."  Directed by the duo of Powell and Pressburger, starring Deborah Kerr and David Farrar, this film is about a group of nuns tasked with setting up a convent high in the Himalayas, leaving familiarity behind and grappling with the mysticism and other-worldliness of this strange setting.

We also review in layman's terms what the Technicolor process is, what made it so special, and why it is not possible to recreate it in today's world.

So, as Hamlet tells Ophelia, so we advise you, "Get thee to a nunnery... go!"