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NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Maysles, the revolutionary documentary filmmaker who helped pioneer nonfiction movies by turning a keenly observant eye on both the famous and the ordinary in films like “Gimme Shelter” and “Grey Gardens,” has died. He was 88. Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/documentary-filmmaker-albert-mayles-dies-88-172352640.html;_ylt=A0SO81TJD_pUfX0ArBNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbmMzNW92BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVklQNTMxXzEEc2VjA3Nj

Film Society Lincoln Center http://newdirectors.org Walter Reade Mar 27, 6:30PM  MoMA – Titus 1 Mar 28, 1:00PM   

The world premiere of Listen to Me Marlon at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was a big success. Built around Marlon Brando’s personal archive, the film has been getting a wonderful response (see review links below), and will receive a world wide release later this year. Variety: http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/sundance-film-review-listen-to-me-marlon-1201420110/ Hollywood Reporter: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/listen-me-marlon-sundance-review-770073

Rolling Stone lists its top 25 films to see at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, including Listen to Me Marlon. http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/25-must-see-movies-sundance-2015-20150116/listen-to-me-marlon-20150116

‘Brickman Brando Bubble Boom’ at Ellen Stewart Theater Marlon Brando made his 21st-century Off Off Broadway debut this week, at the Ellen Stewart Theater on East Fourth Street. Dead for more than a decade, Brando looks great and not so great in the role of Sir John Brickman, a self-made British property baron of the […]

“Marlon had an expression, he’d say: Let’s go out and jiggle the molecules.” – Quincy Jones Throughout the history of art, there have arguably been only a handful of artists in any medium that reconfigured the way we perceive life and our place within it. Painters Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso famously challenged our sense […]

“Listen to Me Marlon” United Kingdom (Director and screenwriter: Stevan Riley, Co-writer: Peter Ettedgui) — With exclusive access to previously unheard audio archives, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career and extraordinary life away from the stage and screen, the film fully explores the complexities of the man by telling […]

If you’ve enjoyed photos of Marlon Brando from the mid 1950s (most notably on the sets of The Wild One and Guys and Dolls) you’ve no doubt enjoyed the fantastic photography of Mr. Phil Stern. A legend in the business of celebrity photography from Hollywood’s golden era, a google images search will take you down […]