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...aura, his physical grace and forcefulness, one recognizes the Brando who galvanized Broadway as a young actor in A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, then went on to Hollywood to make a series of six stunning pictures in five years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals...
CENTRAL CINEMA II. Pygnalien, 6, 9:55, Caesar and Cleopatra, 7:55, Wknd...
CENTRAL II. Pygmallon, 6, 9:55; Caesar and Cleopatra, 7:55, weekend...
...Caesar and Cleopatra. Bernard Shaw's Caesar is a good-tempered genius. Its clear why he conquered the world; he was smarter than anyone else, and learned the art of civilization while he conquered. He attempts to teach it to the ardent young Cleopatra, who's not very interested in him otherwise. In so doing, he loses part of his army, but ultimately saves his neck. Gabriel Pascal produced and directed the film, which is photographed by four top British cameramen in florid Technicolor; Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains ham it up nicely as the title characters...
...great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, has had a far better press: well-publicized conquests, a dramatic assassination, a sympathetic portrait by one William Shakespeare. Yet historians generally agree that Caesar's lesser-known nephew and heir, Gaius Octavius Caesar-later to be called Augustus-was in many ways a greater man. His conquests endured longer than those of Napoleon and Alexander; the imperial system he painfully built took five centuries to decay; the Pax Romana he warred to achieve was one of the longest periods of relative peace that history has ever known. The man himself, however...