Word: marlon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meet Marlon Brando andSalesman (Two documentaries by the Maysles brothers.) Friday at 8, Saturday and Sunday...
...Meet Marlon Brandoand Salesman,Two documentaries Directed by Albert and David Maysles at Science Center B, this weekend Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. and Sun at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. (Albert Maysles will be present to discuss the films at the Friday night screening only...
Streetcar remains classic, not so much for the vehicles provided in Blanche and Stanley Kowalski, but for the way Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando take personal possession of them. Only Leigh could have pulled off all those "I don't want realism, I want magic" lines with such charm. And Brando, in his first major role, delivers a lecture on the Napoleonic Code itself worth the price of admission. Neither role is burdened with too much realism; but, like Blanche, Williams works best with magic and myth. Or, to cop another duBois-ism, "50 per cent of this film...
...excellent article on Marlon Brando [May 24] showed him for what he truly is: a human being who's an actor, rather than vice versa...
...course of portraying a psychopathic "regulator"-a hired gun charged by a Montana cattle baron with ridding his range of rustlers-Marlon Brando employs three distinct accents and wears, among other exotic items, a gorgeously fringed buckskin jacket, a coolie's hat and, finally, a grandmotherly gingham dress with a poke bonnet. Obviously, his performance in The Missouri Breaks does not suffer from an excess of discipline. Indeed, it is fair to say that it is gaudy and disruptive to the balance of forces Director Penn must surely have wanted to maintain between Brando and Jack Nicholson...