The Misfits begins a short run on Saturday, August 1, at the Paris Theatre on West 58th Street, New York, as part of ‘It Came From the Archive!’, a series of restored classics presented in association with the Academy Museum.
“Penned by Arthur Miller, this contemporary Western centers on the recently divorced Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) and her relationship with an aging former cowboy, Gay (Clark Gable), who now survives by rounding up wild mustangs to sell them to a slaughterhouse. Considered a commercial failure at the time of its original release, the film has since been regarded as a classic by critics and audiences, perhaps notably because it was the final completed film of both Gable and Monroe, and a fitting bookend to Monroe’s career—she credited director John Huston for her first big break in his The Asphalt Jungle (1950).”
And both of Marilyn’s movies with Huston are coming to the Quad Cinema on West 13th Street from Tuesday, August 4, as part of a four-film series, John Huston: Hollywood Maverick.
- THE ASPHALT JUNGLE: August 4-6 – “Possibly the best crime drama ever filmed, this taut, gritty caper begins with a meticulously planned robbery executed with clockwork precision. But bit by bit, unanticipated events and the criminal’s character flaws begin to unravel a seemingly perfect heist. A young Marilyn Monroe is featured in a small, but star-making performance. Nominated for four Academy Awards including Huston’s second for Best Director, The Asphalt Jungle would go on to influence countless crime pictures, including those of French director Jean-Pierre Melville, who declared it a masterpiece.”
- THE MISFITS: August 11-13 – “Perhaps Huston’s most emotionally resonant film, an elegiac anti-western about a group of emotionally adrift people trying—and largely failing—to find connection in the modern American West. Written by Arthur Miller for his wife, Marilyn Monroe, at a time when their marriage was collapsing. The Misfits marked the last completed screen performances for both Monroe and Clark Gable. Another tragic Hollywood star, Montgomery Clift, also co-stars which adds to the film’s haunting metatextuality about damaged individuals and a dying way of life.”
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