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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 […]
Now, when Johnny Depp recently gave an interview to Details magazine, you might have expected a lot of things – after all, Depp is a pretty renowned bon vivant and general eccentric – but genuinely touching life advice probably isn’t one of them. Especially since that same advice comes not direct from Depp, but from acting legend […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The buyer who pays the $2.89 million price tag for the sprawling mansion at 110 Longfellow Ave. on Emerson Hill isn’t just purchasing an English Tudor with stately rooms, upscale finishes and high-end interior appointments; he or she is also buying one of the most iconic settings in American cinema history. […]
Two Andy Warhol paintings of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando sold for a combined $151.5 million at Christie’s in New York. “Triple Elvis,” a 1963 silkscreen of Presley in a publicity image for the movie “Flaming Star” in which he is shown as a cowboy with a gun, sold for $81.9 million. The almost 7-foot-tall […]
The 1955 film Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine will get the re-release treatment in the U.K. this Christmas with a Sing-a-long version. More info via Empire Magazine: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=42590 Fun Fact 1: Guys and Dolls is Brando’s second film with co-star Jean Simmons following Désirée (1954) Fun Fact 2: Guys and […]