6/29/2023 0 Comments Our Mothers House by Julian GloagIndeed, he had won an Oscar before his very first feature, for the short 1956 Gogol adaptation The Bespoke Overcoat. He had served as an assistant director for Alexander Korda and an associate producer for John Huston before branching out on his own as a director. Most people, if they’ve heard of Jack Clayton, probably know him as the guy behind the great, twisted 1961 Turn of the Screw adaptation The Innocents. But he's one of the great unsung masters of English-speaking cinema. ( Ahem, Criterion…or, really, anybody.) So here goes nothing.įirst, though, a few words about the director. So I hope the Nerve folks won’t mind if I reinstate that feature here and, to kick things off, revisit one of the forgotten films I felt most strongly about, Jack Clayton’s masterpiece, Our Mother’s House, since it is among my absolute favorite films of all time and is still very, very hard to find. Screengrab is long gone not even its leaf-strewn sarcophagus appears to be cached anymore.
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