Name: The Innocents // Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodland...
Start: 2024-10-17T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-17T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Stray Cat Film Center

$The Innocents \/\/ Once Upon a Time in Hollywoodland...$

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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dir. Jack Clayton // 1961 // 1 hr 40 min // Digital Projection

This genuinely frightening, exquisitely made supernatural gothic stars Deborah Kerr as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James’s classic The Turn of the Screw, cowritten by Truman Capote and directed by Jack Clayton, The Innocents is a triumph of narrative economy and technical expressiveness, from its chilling sound design to the stygian depths of its widescreen cinematography by Freddie Francis.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOODLAND... is a series hosted and programmed by KCAI lecturer Kara Heitz looking at classic Hollywood films and history from the advent of sound to the birth of New Hollywood.