Forgotten Movie Songs #9: "O Willow Waly" from THE INNOCENTS

At the beginning of Jack Clayton's elegant but shocking 1961 horror film The Innocents, the audience sits in a darkened theater, listening as a song sings out, seeming as old as the film's central location--a maddening, decrepit manor isolated on the rainy English countryside. This macabre ditty is delivered a capella by a little girl--presumably Pamela Franklin, who stars along with Martin

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 3

Now, for part 3 of my six-part series following 200 landmark film images, we go all monochrome. Black-and-white is all the rage here with these 35 images (this makes 104 of the guaranteed 200, and no directors will be mentioned more than once):Is this real??? Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 33; PHOTOG: Henry Sharp)Our man amongst his treasured swings in Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 52; PHOTOG: Asakazu Nakai)

Film #8: The Innocents

In 1961, British director Jack Clayton delivered one of the greatest horror movies ever made--the ghost story to best all ghost stories. His exquisite adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is boldly frightening, sexually suggestive, and beautifully shot (by Freddie Francis). Deborah Kerr, in perhaps her finest performance, plays a repressed nanny whose new charge--taking care of two