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Title:<\/strong> Making Montgomery Clift<\/em>
\nDirection: Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon
\nCast:<\/strong> Montgomery Clift, Brooks Clift, Judy Balaban, Patricia Bosworth, Michael Easton
\nProduction:<\/strong> Robert Clift, Hillary Demmon
\nDistribution:<\/strong> The Film Collaborative
\nGenre:<\/strong> Documentary
\nDuration:<\/strong> 88\u2019
\nCountry:<\/strong> USA
\nYear:<\/strong> 2018
\nO.V. in English. Subtitles in Spanish and Catalan<\/p>\nFestivals:<\/strong> Austin (LGTBI), Glasgow, Hamptons (documentaries), Kansas City (LGTBI), London (LGTBI), Lyon (LGTBI), Los Angeles, Melbourne (LGTBI), New York (LGTBI), Ottawa (LGTBI), Palm Spring, Paris (LGTBI), Portland (LGTBI), Sydney (LGTBI), Toronto (LGTBI), Thessalonica (documentaries)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Montgomery Clift refused to play the studio game in the ’40s and ’50s. He wouldn’t sign a contract, he dropped out of Sunset Blvd. just before shooting began, and the many films he turned down included Bridge on the River Kwai, East of Eden and On the Waterfront. Because his talent was as dazzling as his beauty, Hollywood met him on his exacting terms, and even with a filmography that numbers fewer than 20 features, his ground-breaking screen performances are indelible. Montgomery Clift bucked traditions on and off screen, but countless biographies have reduced him to labels like \u201ctragically self-destructive\u201d and \u201ctormented.\u201d <\/p>\n
Nephew Robert Clift and Hillary Demmon rigorously examine the flawed narratives that have come to define Monty\u2019s legacy. Their eye-opening documentary is propelled by a superb selection of vintage clips, home movies about the great actor, interviews with family and loved ones and unreleased archival materials from Monty and his brother, Brooks Clift, who both obsessively recorded their phone calls. It excavates a treasure trove of family archives, deconstructing the pop psychology that reduced a life and an extraordinary career to a Freudian clich\u00e9. In footage of him at leisure, his joy and exuberance light up the screen\u2026 This fresh portrait of the actor\u2019s passions and commitment to living and working in his own way gives one of Hollywood\u2019s underappreciated legends his due.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>