Will we have alive in a time when Marilyn Monroe is totally forgotten? I’d venture to say that no other film actress from any period has the enduring power of Monroe. And it’s almost entirely, in my opinion, based on image, which perhaps explains the reissue of the Bert Stern photography book, which features the last images ever taken of Monroe. Compared with either Katherine or Audrey Hepburn,…

Film Forum has been showing a season of films featuring Montgomery Clift, one of which is The Misfits. Filmed at the very beginning of the sixties and released in 1961, the title refers to two things. First, the wild mustang horses that once roamed the Nevada landscape, and secondly, the principal characters, who cannot fit into a society that demands not just their bodies but their souls as…