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I Confess
Film Review July 15, 1999
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: One of Hitchcock's lesser-known works, I Confess tells the story of a priest who is accused of a murder he didn't commit but who also refuses to clear his name...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock. Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden and Brian Aherne..."
Film Fight Field Trip ... With One Quick Rejoinder
Screens Blog July 9, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
"...Montgomery Clift … I’m not so sure …..."
Annapolis
Film Review January 27, 2006
by Marc Savlov
Description: Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum. 
by Marc Savlov
"...Justin Lin’s promising 2002 film Better Luck Tomorrow – about a group of overachieving Asian-American schoolkids who get wrapped up in a murder – never fully engaged me while managing to woo other critics (and more than a few Sundancers) into a state of rapturous bliss. Compared to that challenging film, Annapolis is a thick but hardly meaty slice of old-school Hollywood hokum, the sort of film that in decades past might have attracted actors like Montgomery Clift or even John Wayne..."
Match Point
Film Review January 20, 2006
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Woody Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love, and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment and omniscience. 
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...The storyline bears obvious reminders of Allen’s magnificent Crimes and Misdemeanors (a copy of the novel Crime and Punishment even comes into view). Yet the more obvious model for Match Point is Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel An American Tragedy, which was made into A Place in the Sun with stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters..."
Renegade
Music Story January 20, 2006
by Raoul Hernandez
Description: Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later
"...XM radio's precursor, FM, jumped aboard Lizzy's cover of Bob Seger's tea queen "Rosalie" and tried to hold on for eight seconds as the band bucked and snorted, the lashing solo cutting into the Seventies psyche. "Cowboy Song" burst the chute next on the band's trademark twin lead guitars, riding buffalo from Texas to Mexico like John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, before charging straight into a take-no-prisoners "The Boys Are Back in Town." On the subsequent Live and Dangerous video, Lynott's iconic Afro crown nearly eclipses his Les Paul dyad, flame-throwing Scottsman Robertson and SoCal surf disciple and Lizzy mainstay Scott Gorham...."
After a Fashion
Columns January 20, 2006
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Description: Stephen remembers the bawdy Shelley Winters and goes to an all-girl affair!
"...GOODBYE, SHELLEY Not many could utter the line "Manny, if I get stuck, push!" with the conviction that Shelley Winters did, and the character of Belle Rosen in The Poseidon Adventure is one of many that rendered Shelley immortal. Skittering across the Forties in studio-issue starlet roles, she met the brilliant George Stevens in 1951, who turned Shelley into an actress and turned her career around by casting her opposite Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (Elizabeth Taylor plays her first adult role in the film as well)..."
After a Fashion
Columns July 22, 2005
by Stephen MacMillan Moser
"...My favorite? "La Isla Finita." It's just a Bed, Bath & Beyoncé world. Shocked by the concept of "trophy wives?" How 'bout the new concept of "starter marriages?" They used to call Montgomery Clift "PTM." Today, they'd say, "Hung like a light switch." The new line of high-carb, low-nutrition food is called Betty Cracker..."
Letters at 3am
Columns May 31, 2002
by Michael Ventura
Description: Learning about "manhood" from the movies.
"...actors, presences, of considerable substance and range, far more centered and less self-centered than the generation that followed them. James Stewart, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, and Frank Sinatra might be more vulnerable, more sensitive too, but they were also a lot more itchy, unstable, self-referential, each expressing a strength that was palpable without ever being quite sure of itself; while Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn signified powerful aspects of "woman" without ever giving the impression of a complete, many-faceted psyche that, say, Barbara Stanwyck embodied just by showing up..."
From Here to Eternity
Music Story May 19, 2000
by Jerry Renshaw
Description: The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do
"...Throughout, Strummer's humor and humanism shine through in the lyrics, such as those in "The Right Profile" and its tale of the star-crossed Montgomery Clift. It was a sort of Sgt..."
Suddenly, Last Summer
Film Review May 18, 2000
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: Tennessee Williams here uses homosexuality, lobotomies, and cannibalism as plot points in this sanitized version penned for the screen by Gore Vidal. Still, the battles between the imperious Hepburn and...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Mankiewicz. Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge and Albert Dekker..."
Off the Bookshelf
Books Review December 31, 1999
by Karl Monger
"...For the superstitious scandal monger in all of us, this recently revised and updated book of tales asks only that you suspend that tired disbelief in exchange for a camp good time. It offers the otherworldly lowdown on such restless entities as Ozzie Nelson (his ghost is horny), Bela Lugosi, Lucille Ball (her ghost is sad), Montgomery Clift, Howard Hughes, and Errol Flynn (his ghost terrorized Ricky Nelson's daughter, Tracy ....."
Scanlines
Screens Story July 8, 1999
"...The Young Lions (1958) is a contemplative war film with a great cast, and The Carpetbaggers (1964) is a hard-core Hollywood-as-subject classic. Still, for the star power Dmytryk worked with -- including Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Marlon Brando, and Clark Gable -- the latter filmography isn't very impressive...."
Loving Liz and Lana
Screens Column January 21, 1999
by Margaret Moser
"...(The first time I saw it, it sent me running to the dictionary. What in blazes is "mendacity"?) In another Tennessee Williams screenplay, 1960's Suddenly Last Summer (1/22, 9pm) Taylor stars with Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift for the third time..."
Homage To An Old Marquee
Columns January 23, 1998
by Michael Ventura
"...I didn't know it at the time but one of the young ushers was Peter Bogdanovich, who would direct The Last Picture Show and Saint Jack, to name only two. He later wrote of a day when Montgomery Clift came to see a movie..."
That Old Revival Spirit
Screens Story June 13, 1997
"...D: Fred Zinnemann; with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine. (B&W)..."
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