Making Montgomery Clift

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Making Montgomery Clift

2018

1h 28m

Documentary

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Classic film star Montgomery Clift's legacy is a story of tragedy and self-destruction, but a more complicated picture emerges when his nephew dives into the family archives.

Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

I yearned for more facts about Clift's involvement in such classics as Red River, I Confess, and Wild River, though the passages about how he sculpted his performances in The Search and Judgment at Nuremberg speak to his impeccable craft.

Mar 24, 2020

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Michael Schulman

The New Yorker

Making Montgomery Clift is a fascinating study of the ethics of biography...

Jan 24, 2020

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Leonard Maltin

leonardmaltin.com

Making Montgomery Cliftis a highly personal endeavor that should be of interest to any film buff. It leaves some questions unanswered but paints an admiring portrait of a singular talent. It's available on VOD right now and well worth seeing

Oct 17, 2019

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Michael Cuby

them.

A documentary that plays out almost like an episode of a true-crime series, Making will have you ready to call the publications that once described his death as “the slowest suicide in show business” and sue them for slander.

Nov 16, 2022

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Armond White

National Review

The result, which uses assorted data as proof of Clift’s legacy, is more than the usual series of starstruck talking-head reminiscences.

Jun 22, 2022

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

The picture painted of Clift in the film is a funny, vibrant, expressive person who valued his privacy and his craft equally... After others printed the legend for so long, his nephew does an admirable job assembling the truth.

Jul 1, 2020

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This was interesting documentary by Montgomery Cliff's nephew exploring how information on a famous personage is handled throughout the years. Cliff's brother was volumes of paper information but, more than that, we umpteen numbers of recorded interviews and phone conversations. How should this "movie star" be remembered and intrerpreted today.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Robert Anderson Clift

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Hillary Demmon

Director

Robert Anderson Clift

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Hillary Demmon

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Gerald Herman

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Robert Anderson Clift

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Synopsis

Classic film star Montgomery Clift's legacy is a story of tragedy and self-destruction, but a more complicated picture emerges when his nephew dives into the family archives.

Director: Robert Anderson Clift, Hillary Demmon
Producer: Robert Anderson Clift, Hillary Demmon
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 15, 2019
Runtime: 1h 28m

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