The Innocents (#727) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: September 23, 2014
Purchase: TBD

United States
1961
100 minutes
Black and White
2.35:1
English

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.

Disc Features:

1. New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
2. Audio commentary featuring cultural historian Christopher Frayling
3. New interview with cinematographer John Bailey on director of photography Freddie Francis and the look of the film
4. Archival interviews with editor James Clark, Francis, and script supervisor Pamela Francis
5. Trailer
6. More!
7. PLUS: An essay by critic Maitland McDonagh

 

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• United States
• 1961
• 100 minutes
• Black and White
• 2.35:1
• English
• Spine #727

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.

Disc Features

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• Introduction by cultural historian Christopher Frayling
• Audio commentary featuring Frayling
• New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Freddie Francis and the look of the film
• New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2006 with Francis, editor Jim Clark, and script supervisor Pamela Mann Francis
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by critic Maitland McDonagh
  
  New cover by Kate Zambrano