This July 23 marks 53 years since Hollywood icon Montgomery Clift passed away so for this special program the Out Takes team celebrated his remarkable filmic legacy: think queer classics like SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and Oscar winners like FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.

Our guests were MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT directors Robert Anderson Clift and Hillary Demmon. MAKING MONTGOMERY CLIFT deconstructs the pop psychology that reduced Clift’s life and his extraordinary career to a Freudian cliche. We spoke with Clift and Demmon about how their documentary pieces together a heretofore unexplored life, and the remarkable queer legacy of one of Hollywood’s finest actors.