The Misfits: In-Person Screening
Wed 27 May
|London
BFI Distribution invites WFTV members to this special screening of The Misfits, a highlight of Marylin Monroe: Self Made Star, a two-month season at BFI Southbank opening on 1 June in celebration of Monroe’s centenary year.
Time & Location
27 May 2026, 18:30 – 21:00 BST
London, 21 Stephen St, London W1T 1LN, UK
About the Event
BFI Distribution invites WFTV members to this special screening of The Misfits, a highlight of Marylin Monroe: Self Made Star, a two-month season at BFI Southbank opening on 1 June in celebration of Monroe’s centenary year. BFI Southbank invites audiences to look more deeply into the cinema of Marilyn Monroe, to appreciate her craft, charisma and ebullience and celebrate the fiercely talented woman behind the silver screen legend, who was truly ahead of her time.
Marilyn Monroe’s poignant final film, The Misfits (1961) John Huston’s tragic swan song to the Western, was written by Monroe’s then-husband Arthur Miller. A touching and off-beat drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider, both with bittersweet memories of a west that's no longer wild. Monroe delivers one of her very best performances, pouring a devastatingly raw vulnerability and a…