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Post by HELENA MARIA on Oct 18, 2018 7:46:00 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Oct 18, 2018 8:03:43 GMT
 Judgement at Nuremburg for both
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Post by wilcinema on Oct 18, 2018 8:58:42 GMT
Oh Monty, you deserved so much better from life. My heart aches for you.
His career is an embarassment of riches. I think his turn as the priest in "I confess" is criminally underrated, and that his performance in "The search" is wrongfully forgotten. But I'll have to choose "From here to eternity" too: what an amazing movie, and what an affecting performance.
I'll always love Monty.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 18, 2018 11:08:41 GMT
My favorite Clift is A Place In The Sun - a very American story and role that still resonates. I think people remember him and his talent incorrectly, but I also think that's because people sometimes forget how odd the twists and turns of his work were. There were no Clift movies for 3 and 1/2 years in his peak (back when that was unheard of) - in the time he was absent James Dean, who evoked many of his traits, emerged and died.
Clift's career (and talent) is very strange, very unique and he's often not fully understood even by fans. But he'll always be linked to the 50s - a great actor in what many will always consider the greatest decade in Hollywood's history.
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Post by stephen on Oct 18, 2018 18:57:39 GMT
On the great Brando/Clift divide, I have always preferred Monty. Brando was the master of portraying the nuances and weaknesses belied by masculinity, but Clift was more interested in introspective, tormented souls, and delving into the psychology of trauma. I think that while Brando dominated the 1950s in a way unparalleled by any other American actor, Clift's work feels far more groundbreaking without being flashy about it. The depths which Clift plumbed in his portrayals were deep and unmeasurable, and very few actors have dared dive down to those depths again.
It really is a great tragedy that his accident sent him into a slow, terrible decline that resulted in what they called "the longest suicide ever." I think if Clift had kept working, Brando wouldn't have gotten lazy. The two men used each other as a measuring-stick to push themselves further and further, and there is a definite corollary to Clift's accident/semi-retirement/death and Brando's fallow period. I think if Clift had been more of an active presence in the '60s, you might've seen the advent of guys like Cazale and Pacino even sooner, as both of those guys tapped into Clift's sensibilities more than Brando's at the outset. An actively working Clift might've also changed the face of cinema in that era, if he and Brando had kept working consistently and seeking quality projects.
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Post by quetee on Oct 18, 2018 20:52:57 GMT
Happy Birthday to one of my faves. I first saw him in The Heiress and I was mesmerized.
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Post by Mattsby on Oct 18, 2018 22:39:17 GMT
Favorite film is either The Heiress or The Misfits
Fav performance probably The Misfits - where he drunkenly toasts (half off-screen) "To the old elderly pilot and his five-dollar elderly airplane!" The film has this ineffable weight to it, like a tragic reverie, right up to the final frame, bc of course it's Monroe and Gable's last film and the tragedy that is Clift too. His performance, as this damaged and guileless soul, is so poignant, there's a deeply aching and helpless quality to it that's incredibly affecting.
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