One of the all-time great actors, considered by many to be the best. Marlon Brando's particular swagger and intensity marks his performances. Whether in his younger days as one of Hollywood's sexiest leading men or his later days as "The Godfather", Brando stole the show when the camera was on him.
Former Time movie critic Stefan Kanfer adds yet another biography of Marlon Brando to the list. Too bad it didn't have more about Brando's sex life.
Publ.Date : Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:50:45 GMTIf the young Marlon Brando is pure cinema, then Vivien Leigh is frankly pure theatre, in Elia Kazan's stolid 1951 movie version of the Tennessee Williams play, presented at London's BFI Southbank as part of a Williams season. Brando is lethally powerful, but I am ambivalent about Leigh's stagey, mad-eyed performance, often pitilessly inspected in closeup. She plays the delusional, ...
Publ.Date : Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:52:54 GMTMarlon Brando was not an easy man. As an actor he refused to memorize lines and frequently pushed directors to the brink with his ad-libbing and tirades. At 24, he was already an international sensation with his role on Broadway as Stanley Kowalski in "A...
Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:10:32 GMTStop me if you've heard this one before. A leather-capped outsider who looks suspiciously like Marlon Brando is asked what he's rebelling against. He answers, straight-faced, "Whaddaya got?"
Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:30 GMTThe title of this track from previously reported Australian zine The Lifted Brow 's new compilation is taken from a fake book found on a prop bookshelf. The actor Kirk Douglas, of all people, wrote a novel by this name, but I keep thinking of another tango, one between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider that took place in Paris. The story here has something in common with Bertolucci's ...
Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:18:28 GMT
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Brando balked at the prospect of Burt Reynolds in the role of Sonny Corleone in "The Godfather." Brando got his way. And James Caan got the part.
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