Jack Clayton

The Next Reel • Season 13 • Series: 1965 BAFTAs Best Film From Any Source Nominees • The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

November 9, 2023

We continue our series looking at the 1965 BAFTAs for the nominees of the Films From Any Source category, this time with a conversation about Jack Clayton’s The Pumpkin Eater. Easy to say we loved this powerful drama.

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The Innocents

October 23, 2015

Jack Clayton’s 1961 film “The Innocents” really feels like the first in this series that’s got real scares in it, and scares that still hold up today. Martin Scorsese even put it on his list of 11 most scary films. And a lot of that is because of the atmosphere Clayton and his screenwriters (mostly Truman Capote) created with this adaptation of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.” Join us — Pete Wright and Andy Nelson — as we continue our Naughty Children series with “The Innocents.”

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