1961
For the 60-year anniversary, Film Inquiry muses on Allen Baron’s noir film Blast of Silence and its existential prison of shadow and sound.
Sixty years ago, The Children’s Hour dared to make audiences uncomfortable and present the consequences of bigotry.
In this edition of the nominated film you may have missed series, we discuss the classic 1961 sports drama The Hustler, starring Paul Newman.
Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr), the new governess for two orphaned children in Victorian England, arrives at their idyllic country estate in the beginning of the psychological horror film, The Innocents (1961). The naive young woman, who has a lived a solidly middle class existence as a vicar’s daughter, marvels at the stately home and spacious grounds. Everything, including her two young charges, seems innocent and perfect.
