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BLACK NARCISSUS (1947): A GOTHIC ECSTASY IN TECHNICOLOR There are films that tell stories, and then there are films that breathe them — where every frame is a pulse, every shadow a scream, every color a fever. Black Narcissus, Powell and Pressburger’s erotic hallucination of faith and madness, belongs squarely to the latter. Set in a Himalayan convent suspended between sky and abyss, the film floats like a hallucination — one moment celestial, the next carnivorous. This is not the Orient of maps

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OPERA AFTER DARK | SEPTEMBER 26 | A late-night opera party   It’s...

A haunting performance by the late, great Patricia Routledge (1929–2025). Here she sings “Follow Me” from Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot, a rarely heard gem that feels especially poignant now. The song itself is already ethereal, but hearing Patricia sing it in light of her passing adds a weight that is hard to describe. When she reaches the words “World farewell, world goodbye. To our home ’neath the sea we shall fly; follow me,” and then fades into the distance—it brought a tear to my eye. I can’t h