Nominated for four Academy Awards, first-time feature director Paul Newman’s longtime spouse and creative collaborator Joanne Woodward delivers a nuanced, Oscar-nominated performance as the sheltered schoolteacher Rachel Cameron. A late bloomer burdened by a delayed sexual awakening and a demanding mother, Rachel splits time between the schoolhouse and the mother-daughter duo’s disquieted domestic life. Dede Allen’s experience with sound editing is beautifully showcased in Rachel, Rachel’s various flashback, fantasy, and dream sequences, which make use of the audio pre-lapping technique of anticipating sound for the following scene before glimpsing its visuals, a stylistic flourish that became one of her signatures.