Apocalypse Now: Multiple Screenings in Los Angeles
Colonel Kurtz comes to Tinseltown If you or anyone you know is in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 1st it’ll be difficult to not catch a screening of the film Apocalypse Now, starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Frederic Forrest and a (very) young Laurence Fishburne. The film will be screening at the […]
The Godfather Live Comes To Europe!
The Godfather. See the epic masterpiece in HD on a 22 meter wide screen with a live symphony orchestra! The European tour of The Godfather Live will include 30 performances in 14 European countries. The offer you cannot refuse! Visit the tour’s official Facebook page for more information and tickets: https://www.facebook.com/TheGodfatherLive
RIP Photographer Mary Ellen Mark
If you’ve seen photographs of a bald headed Marlon Brando with a dragonfly on his finger or a Diet Coke bottle cap covering his eye you’ve see the excellent work of Mary Ellen Mark who passed away on May 25th at the age of 75. Mark was the set photographer for Apocalypse Now, but her work […]
Attention Angelenos! Rarely seen Marlon Brando film, The Ugly American, will be playing at the American Cinematheque Aero Theater in Santa Monica Friday, May 22
http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/rebel-without-a-cause-the-ugly-american If you or anyone you know have information about a Brando film screening in your area, please let us know at [email protected]
Ethan Hawke Presented with Marlon Brando Award
Actor Ethan Hawke accepts the Marlon Brando Award during Stella By Starlight, The Stella Adler Studio Of Acting’s 10th Annual Fundraising Gala on May 11, 2015 in New York City. http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ethan-Hawke-Kate-Mulgrew-and-More-Honored-at-STELLA-BY-STARLIGHT-Gala-Tonight-20150511
Showtime Sets Theatrical Release For “Listen To Me Marlon”
“Listen to Me Marlon,” based on Brando’s never-before-heard archive, will open on July 29 at Film Forum in New York and on July 31 at the Landmark in Los Angeles, then expand nationwide throughout the summer and fall. Read More: http://variety.com/…/showtime-sets-theatrical-releases-for…/
Former Marlon Brando home sells in Hollywood Hills
The 1926 Spanish Revival house where Marlon Brando once took residence in the Hollywood Hills sells for $3.1 million. Seen prominently in the episode of Person to Person where Edward R. Murrow interviews Brando and his father after the On the Waterfront star won his best actor Oscar in 1955. See the full Person to Person interview […]
Letters Of Note: A Letter From Jack Kerouac To Marlon Brando
Late-1957, with his newly released novel attracting near-universal praise from critics, Beat author Jack Kerouac aimed for the sky and wrote the following passionate letter to Marlon Brando in an effort to bring his work to the big screen. The novel in question was On the Road… Read More and see the letter: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/06/come-on-now-marlon-put-up-your-dukes.html?utm_content=buffer3de01&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer
Brando Birthday Breakdown – WYPR Radio
Shout out to Baltimore’s WYPR radio program Midday and their appreciation of Marlon Brando last Friday on what would have been Brando’s 91st birthday. Host Dan Rodericks and his guests Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellwyn Reed challenge preconceived notions of Marlon Brando in the popular consciousness and explore some of his lesser-known (but by no means […]
Marlon Brando’s 91st birthday, April 3rd
Spring has sprung for most of us in the northern hemisphere as we come up on what would have been Marlon Brando’s 91st birthday, April 3rd. Let’s begin with a fun fact: At the time of this newsletter we have just passed the 60th anniversary of On the Waterfront sweeping the 1955 Academy Awards with 8 […]
60 years ago today!
On this day in 1955, “On the Waterfront” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1954, while its star, Marlon Brando won best actor.
The Godfather featured in American Cinematheque’s Movie Crime Dynasties
Attention The Godfather fans in Los Angeles: The American Cinematheque will be showing The Godfather at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica March 26. Come see great movie at a great venue! www.americancinemathequecalender.com/content/the-godfather-7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjPmaneLadQ