The Innocents is the best version of The Turn of the Screw that is ever likely to be filmed. Deborah Kerr gives the best performance of her illustrious career as the sexually obsessed (in this version) governess. It's pretty clear, thanks to Kerr and director Jack Clayton, that the ghosts are figments of her fevered imagination. Often the adaptors try to play it more ambiguous and just come up with blandness.

Need I add that Kerr, nominated over and over for lesser performances, remained nodless for The Innocents?

I've heard it's a good and amazingly naked look at the star. She shows how hard she still works to get a gig anywhere she can. Fairly courageous, even is self-exploitative at the same time.

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is a fairly enjoyable documentary. It may have been a lot more fun in a crowded theater.

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Just coincidentally, I was at the movies today and there was a preview of an upcoming movie where a young girl is inhabited by some dead person who wants revenge. Gore and ugliness all over the place. Talk about repetition!!!!!!

I also saw a preview of The Kids Are All Right. It really looked like something I didn't want to see. Ugly people doing stupid things. Oh well.

IIRC there has been nothing but good reviews on here and in other places. I don't know, maybe I like my lesbians good looking and well dressed.

I should see the movie, but I can never think of Kerr as a sexual siren. That is my main problem with the great "From Here To Eternity" and the far less great "Our Love Affair". To me she will always be Anna of Siam, in debilitating hoops.

Jeremy makes a point about the use of the ghost to bring out interior workings of a living character. I think the chat started because Shane was questioning its use, not as a dramatic device (an ancient and venerable one, as discussed above), but as a literal supernatural occurrence, and one in which ghosts are given all kinds of ridiculous abilities. This annoys me, when ghosts, which are purported to be nonphysical entities, somehow manage to blow papers all around the room, rifle drawers, shatter windows, start fires, fry laptops, and drag off the Thanksgiving turkey thus cruelly implicating an innocent dog. (OK, I made that last one up, but I expect it at any time) Ghost were once confined to conveying a chill or making bumping noises, and it was left ambiguous as to the reality of said chills and bumps.

Kerr in From Here to Eternity was a disaster in every way. She had no sexual chemistry with Lancaster, and her American accent is one of the worst on record. I happen to like Kerr a whole lot, but in FHTE she was pure amateur.

Of course, she was nominated for the Oscar.

From Here to Eternity is one of the prime exhibits in the Lousy Movies Win Oscars case.