Benjamin Britten the apex of his reputation: it was almost universally hailed as a masterpiece." Shostakovich told Rostropovich that he believed it to be "the greatest work of the twentieth century". In 1967 the BBC commissioned Britten to write an opera specially for television. "Owen Wingrave" was based, like "The Turn of the Screw", on a ghost story by Henry James. By the 1960s Britten found composition much slower than in his prolific youth; he told the 28-year-old composer Nicholas Maw, "Get as much done now as you can, because it gets much, much more difficult as you grow older." He did
The Turn of the Screw by Rebecca Lenkiewicz was presented in a co-production with Hammer at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013. There have been numerous film adaptations of the novel. The critically acclaimed "The Innocents" (1961), directed by Jack Clayton, and Michael Winner's prequel "The Nightcomers" (1972) are two particularly notable examples. Other feature film adaptations include Rusty Lemorande's 1992 eponymous adaptation (set in the 1960s); Eloy de la Iglesia's Spanish-language "Otra vuelta de tuerca" ("The Turn of the Screw", 1985); "Presence of Mind" (1999), directed by Atoni Aloy; "In a Dark Place" (2006), directed by Donato Rotunno and Walter Lima Jr.'s Brazilian-Portuguese-language