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THE MISFITS
1961
Director
John Huston
Starring
Marilyn Monroe
Clark Gable
Montgomery Clift
Thelma Ritter
Runtime
125 minutes
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“How do you find your way back in the dark?” This line, delivered with breathy curiosity to Clark Gable, would be the last of Marilyn Monroe’s career; it was the final film for Gable as well, who passed away before its release. THE MISFITS begins in Reno, province of the quickie divorce, where Monroe’s character has just arrived. There she befriends a boarding house matron, a widower mechanic, and an over-the-hill cowboy, all of whom, like her, have run away from their past. “Her playwright husband Arthur Miller gave her her most serious script, and if it was a flawed masterpiece, it is still a masterpiece,” wrote Lincoln Kirstein. “But THE MISFITS, unlike her other films, is not essentially about her performance, or about an artist performing. It is about the almost pornographic horror of a famous man who is actually dying and a famous woman who is having a nervous breakdown.”
"When icons Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe spend their last two hours on screen slowly fading away before our very eyes, real life myths spill over into celluloid immortality. As we watch these two titans of cinematic history accept their fate and ride off towards the big star up above, it’s hard to know whether to feel comforted in their resolution with accepting the inevitable. THE MISFITS is one of those screamingly hopeless films that only occurs when the stars magically align." - Cormac McNamee
Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick
Through April 6
In her new suite of collages, Natalie Krick deconstructs pictures of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s book The Complete Last Sitting, complicating the voyeuristic viewing imposed on its iconic subject.
“How do you find your way back in the dark?” This line, delivered with breathy curiosity to Clark Gable, would be the last of Marilyn Monroe’s career; it was the final film for Gable as well, who passed away before its release. THE MISFITS begins in Reno, province of the quickie divorce, where Monroe’s character has just arrived. There she befriends a boarding house matron, a widower mechanic, and an over-the-hill cowboy, all of whom, like her, have run away from their past. “Her playwright husband Arthur Miller gave her her most serious script, and if it was a flawed masterpiece, it is still a masterpiece,” wrote Lincoln Kirstein. “But THE MISFITS, unlike her other films, is not essentially about her performance, or about an artist performing. It is about the almost pornographic horror of a famous man who is actually dying and a famous woman who is having a nervous breakdown.”
"When icons Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe spend their last two hours on screen slowly fading away before our very eyes, real life myths spill over into celluloid immortality. As we watch these two titans of cinematic history accept their fate and ride off towards the big star up above, it’s hard to know whether to feel comforted in their resolution with accepting the inevitable. THE MISFITS is one of those screamingly hopeless films that only occurs when the stars magically align." - Cormac McNamee
Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick
Through April 6
In her new suite of collages, Natalie Krick deconstructs pictures of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s book The Complete Last Sitting, complicating the voyeuristic viewing imposed on its iconic subject.