October Wrap-Up.

Tomorrow is Halloween which means October is nearly gone. Happy Devil's Night! Apart from the madhouse of virtual festivals (which all decided to happen at once!) and finally getting all Oscar charts up for this strange season we spent most of October celebrating Montgomery Clift's Centennial. We're so proud of that 18 episode series and the fine insights of our writers so we sincerely hope you got something out of it and were spurred on to discover at least a couple of his pictures that you hadn't seen before. If you did, please let us know in the comments so we know we reached people. Highlights from October follow...

12 Highlights You Might Have Missed

• To Die For -Chris revisits for the 25th anniversary of Kidman's breakout
• Damon Identity - Patrick's thinkpiece about Matt Damon's persona
• Bram Stoker's Dracula - Michael's hilarious first screening (!) of this visual orgy
• Smackdown 1965 - Shelley Winters vs Maggie Smith vs Ruth Gordon
• Sally Kirkland FYC a legendary Oscar campaign for Anna (1987)
• Ranking Olivier's 10 Oscar nods -Cláudio on Sleuth, Othello, Rebecca, etc...
• From Here to Eternity - Nathaniel on the peak of Montgomery Clift's stardom
• The Furniture: Suddenly Last Summer - Daniel on wild gardens, descending thrones, medical theatres
• Almost There: Andrew Garfield -for The Social Network's 10th anniversary
• Pretty Woman Fantasy - Christopher recounts a fateful Halloween night
• NYFF: French Exit - Nathaniel works out his issues with the transfer
• Making Montgomery Clift - Sean's thoughtful epilogue to our series - have any of you seen this documentary?

5 Most Discussed Articles

• YNMS: Hillbilly Elegy - Damn the opinions were out to play!
• Cancel the Oscars' is bulls***t - And more (heated) opinions
• YNMS: The Prom - Meryl, Nicole, and more in this movie musical
• Best Actress Predictions - Always discussable!
• Oldest Best Actress lineups will 2020 break the record set just seven years back?

COMING IN NOVEMBER: New films including Ammonite, Mank, Monsoon, Wolfwalkers, Sound of Metal, and Hillbilly Elegy and retrospectives including Home for the Holidays 25th, Gene Tierney's 100th, and of course our 1987 series culminating in the season finale of Supporting Actress Smackdown. 

If you're just rejoining us looking to catch up. 2020 so far...
2019 Film Year Wrap | Feb | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct

Comments

[Dan Humphrey]

The Clift series was great. More like that, please.

[James from Ames]

What a rich month. This blog has been such a welcome distraction recently. Thanks, TFE team and fellow commenters!

[BJT]

Feel like you missed something big coming up in November (and I don't mean the E! People's Choice Awards).

Stay safe. Vote.