This
article is also featured in the May/June 2017 issue of THE DARK PAGES film noir
newsletter edited by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry. For information on the
bi-monthly publication, Click here.
During
Turner Classic Movies’ 8th annual film festival in April, more than
75 films were shown over the event’s four day run. All films screened were
classics and almost all of them appealed to me. But there were two that I was
determined to see: The Powell/Pressburger tour de force Black Narcissus (1947), presented on nitrate-based film stock, and the
less well known newly restored French film noir, Panique (1946), from director Julien Duvivier (1896 – 1967).
