Word: brando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ASTOR: One-eyed Jacks, Marlon Brando directs and stars in a Hemingwayesque reworking of traditional Western themes and situations...
ASTOR: Marlon Brando, when he was about to conclude his first job of directing, called in the cast of ONE-EYED JACKS and asked them to vote on an ending. Though nothing could save this film from being touched by cliche, it is at least interesting as a curiosity piece. Stars Brando and Karl Malden, off the 'chute. Daily...
...little episode in America." But Actress McNeil, worshiped by Broadway critics as an Earth Mother, too often on the screen suggests a mean old man in a wig. And Actor Poitier, though always exciting to watch, never quite starts living his role, never quite stops playing the black Brando...
...action scenes, in fact, are ingenious and exciting. Brando seems to combine a small boy's infatuation with violence and a dancer's flair for movement. Director Brando, however, comes off much better than Actor Brando, the Method Cowboy, who incessantly mumbles, scratches, blinks, rubs his nose and sulks. In short. Brando plays the same character he always plays, the only character who seems to interest him: Marlon Brando. A childish thing indeed...
Shadows (Gena; Lion International) was made by Actor John Cassavetes, a young Stanislavsky buff long known in show business as a watered-down Brando-on-the-rocks. After a brief boom in television and B movies, Cassavetes in 1956 set up his own actors' studio in Manhattan. There one night his group improvised a scene that suddenly "exploded with life." Cassavetes had a wild idea: Why not improvise a full-length movie...