Today marks what would have been the 99th birthday of Montgomery Clift, an actor I’ve long admired since taking a deep dive into classic Hollywood films. While one of the more prolific stars of his time, Clift feels underrated as an actor, especially in conversation with his contemporaries like Marlon Brando and James Dean, and…
TCM’s star of the day is Montgomery Clift, and my film pick for the actor is The Search, which airs today at 4:00 P.M. (EST). The Search follows a young Czech boy named Karel Malik (Ivan Jandl) who flees a refugee center in postwar Germany to find his mother (Jarmila Novotna), whom he was separated from…
Don’t really have much to introduce here for the month of June, other than it’s summer and I’ve spent much of it indoors watching movies (but that’s also partly because it’s been raining a lot where I live so there’s not much to do outside anyway). As you’ll see under the cut, I mostly watched…