Fotografías de Montgomery Clift en una exposición

Montgomery Clift vuelve a estar de actualidad este mes de abril. En este caso se verán fotografías suyas.

Hoy se inaugura en el Palazzo della Ragione de Milán (Italia) la exposición "Stanley Kubrick - Fotografo. Gli anni di Look (1945-1959)." El director de cine Stanley Kubrick trabajó como fotógrafo freelance de la revista norteamericana Look entre los años 1945 y 1959. Fotografió a Montgomery Clift en casa de los McCarthy y son unas fotografías llenas de frescura y espontaneidad. No sé cuál de ellas recogerá la muestra. Para ver las fotos, mañana las pondré todas en un sólo post.

Stanley Kubrick a Milano in versione fotografo. Palazzo della Ragione ospita una mostra con oltre 300 fotografie del grande regista di 2001 Odissea nello Spazio o Full Metal Jacket. Un percorso che documenta un aspetto poco conosciuto nella carriera dell'artista statunitense quando, nel 1945, a soli 17 anni venne assunto come fotoreporter dalla rivista americana Look.Le immagini in mostra testimoniano la capacità di Kubrick di documentare la vita quotidiana dell'America dell'immediato dopoguerra, attraverso le storie di celebri personaggi come Rocky Graziano o Montgomery Clift, le inquadrature fulminanti e ironiche nella New York che si apprestava a diventare la nuova capitale mondiale, o ancora la vita quotidiana dei musicisti dixieland. Il percorso espositivo è organizzato in due parti. È la prima volta che un'esposizione indaga la parentesi da fotoreporter di Kubrick: l'esposizione è forte della collaborazione con la Library of Congress di Washington e il Museum of the City of New York, che custodiscono un patrimonio ancora sconosciuto di oltre 20.000 negativi di Kubrick, giovanissimo, ma già grande fotografo.La mostra "Stanley Kubrick Fotografo 1945-1950", realizzata dal Comune di Milano e da Giunti Arte Mostre Musei in collaborazione con la Library of Congress di Milano e il Museum of the City of New York, resterà aperta al pubblico dal 16 aprile al 4 luglio prossimo.

Duración:
16 abril - 4 julio

Dirección:
Piazza dei Mercanti,1 20123 Milano

The Passion of Montgomery Clift, by Amy Lawrence

Acaba de salir una nueva biografía sobre Montgomery Clift. Está escrita por Amy Lawrence, profesora de Estudios cinematográficos y televisivos y Literatura comparada, y editada por la University of California Press (UC Press).

El título, muy acertado, parece inspirado en su película Freud, secret passion (1962) y la foto pertenece a la sesión de fotos que le tomaron el 30 de noviembre de 1948 para la revista Life. Ver post.

Es una noticia estupenda, que siguen homenajeándolo y se quiera conocer un poquillo cómo fue la vida y la obra del gran Montgomery Clift. Si yo tuviera los medios necesarios a mi alcance, reconozco que me encantaría escribir una biografía sobr él en base a lo que voy recopilando en este blog.

Éstos son los datos de la edición:

(English text):

* Author: Amy Lawrence

* Title: The Passion of Montgomery Clift

* Prices: $60.00, £41.95 hardcover /$24.95, £16.95 paperback

*352 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 13 color illustrations, 41 b/w photographs

* Availability: June 2010, Available worldwide

* Description:

From his 1948 film debut in Red River through such classics as The Heiress, A Place in the Sun, and From Here to Eternity, Montgomery Clift exemplified a new masculinity and—leading the way for a generation of actors, including Marlon Brando and James Dean—epitomized the new naturalistic style of acting. Clift's impact was such that, both during his troubled life and after his untimely death, fans described the actor in religious terms, characterizing Clift as a vision, acolyte, and martyr. In The Passion of Montgomery Clift, Amy Lawrence challenges the myth of Clift as tragic victim by examining Clift's participation in the manipulation of his image, his collaborations with directors, his relationships with costars, and his interactions with writers.

* Reviews:

"The art and legend of Montgomery Clift, tortured soul and triumphant talent, is brought into extraordinarily sharp focus in Amy Lawrence's discerning, sympathetic and highly readable examination of a brilliant, beautiful, haunted performer."—Lee Server, author of Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care

*About The Author:

Amy Lawrence is Professor of Film and Television Studies at Dartmouth College and is the author of Echo and Narcissus: Women's Voices in Classical Hollywood Cinema (UC Press), and The Films of Peter Greenaway.

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BAM: That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!

Montgomery Clift está de actualidad este mes de marzo en el BAM. La Brooklyn Academy of Music (Bam) es un lugar muy importante de representaciones vanguardistas y del teatro experimental. Para el mes de marzo han proyectado un ciclo de cine dedicado a Montgomery Clift. Es una ocasión muy buena para darlo a conocer a jóvenes generaciones de cineastas y cinéfilos y tributarle un homenaje en su ciudad querida.

El ciclo empieza hoy, 11 de marzo y se prolonga hasta el 25. Éstas son las películas programadas (son un total de 11, quedando fuera 6):

	The Heiress Thu, Mar 11 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:15pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	A Place in the Sun Fri, Mar 12 at 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	The Young Lions Sat, Mar 13 at 2, 8:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	I Confess Sun, Mar 14 at 4:30, 9:15pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	From Here to Eternity Intro by Patricia Bosworth before 6:30 screening Sun, Mar 14 at 2, 6:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	The Big Lift Mon, Mar 15 at 4:30, 6:50, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Lonelyhearts Tue, Mar 16 at 6:50, 9:15pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory Red River Thu, Mar 18 at 6:50, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory Wild River Mon, Mar 22 at 6:50, 9:15pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	Repertory, Cinema Q&As Freud Cinemachat with Elliott Stein Tue, Mar 23 at 7pm BAM Rose Cinemas
	The Misfits Thu, Mar 25 at 4:30, 7, 9:30pm BAM Rose Cinemas

SERIES DESCRIPTION

The prototype for the handsome, brooding leading man later embodied by James Dean and Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift’s sensitive and soulful screen persona redefined masculinity in the 1950s and brought method acting into vogue. Though his tragic career—marked by a disfiguring car accident, struggle with alcoholism, and untimely death at age 45—has become the stuff of Hollywood legend, Clift’s stunningly modern, emotionally layered performances only resonate more with time.

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"The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up the social ladder, ever hopeful, for Liz Taylor in A Place in the Sun. With an uncanny mixture of silk and sulk, Clift left a handful of indelible performances before his untimely death in 1966." More

The face that launched a thousand Method thesps, Montgomery Clift is best remembered as the determined American dreamer who reaches up the social ladder, ever hopeful, for Liz Taylor in A Place in the Sun. With an uncanny mixture of silk and sulk, Clift left a handful of indelible performances before his untimely death in 1966. At the opposite ends of his meteoric rise and demise, there are must-see rivers: first came Howard Hawks' Red River and his oedipal clash with John Wayne, then Elia Kazan's 1960 beaut, Wild River. And let's not forget his sad-eyed turn as the ex-boxer in WWII staple From Here to Eternity.

- Jason Jude Chan

Dirección del Bam:

30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-1486, United States
(718) 636-4100

Ha muerto Jo Anna March Clift

Ha fallecido la que fue última esposa de Brooks Clift, el hermano mayor de Monty.

Este es el obituario que recoge Internet:

No services are planned for Jo Anna March Clift, 76, Poulsbo, Wash. Private inurnment will be at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. Mrs. Clift died Tuesday, June 2, 2009, in Poulsbo, Washington.

Para saber quién fue esta actriz, leer post con su biografía.

Osaka European Film Festival

Durante el mes de noviembre se celebra la 14ª edición de este Festival de Cine dedicado al Cine Europeo y que tiene lugar en la ciudad japonesa de Osaka. Reconozco que me era totalmente desconocido y que resulta agradable ver el interés por ese tipo de cine.

En la edición de 2004 se proyectó Stazione Termini. En este enlace puede verse la referencia. de su proyección. A destacar que consideraran italiana esta película (yo siempre he compartido ese punto de vista) y los fotogramas que incluyen.

Aún no están publicados los post referentes a la carrera inematográfica de Montgomery Clift que tendrán un orden cronológico. En sus momento hablaré en extensión de este interesante melodrama romántico con visos del Neorrealismo.