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Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

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A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 5 wins & 20 nominations. See more awards »

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With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

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Intimate. Explicit. Uninhibited. See more »


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23 October 2015 (UK)  »

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Lying for a Living  »

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Opening Weekend USA:

$38,080, 2 August 2015, Limited Release

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$426,130

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$517,793
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A documentary made entirely out of archive footage and Marlon Brando's own words from recordings, confessionals, and self hypnosis. See more »

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Marlon Brando, Himself: He should be mysterious - a mythological figure. He is the heart of darkness.
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Written by Max Richter
Performed by Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Carr, Ian Burdge and Chris Worsey
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Informative and Fascinating
30 August 2015 | by See all my reviews

This documentary is full of many bits and pieces from Brando's life and career. I found it all most fascinating, and agree it's a good documentary.

What I found less fulfilling was the choice to use a patchwork approach to its formal structure It jumped around quite a bit, skimming over surfaces; I would have preferred a more chronological, in-depth approach--but that's my own opinion.

For instance, Brando got a lot of "bad press flack" for his so-called "erratic behavior" in "Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Apacolypse Now." This documentary had an opportunity to clarify the controversy, but didn't.

What was a treat, though, was viewing live footage of Stellar Adler at work in the formative U.S. stages of teaching the "Method," along with samplings of Stanislavsky's initial philosophy on acting technique.

The inclusion of scene clips from Brando's various films were also engaging, though a number of his films were omitted (perhaps by not having the studios' approval). The reported clash between Brando's training and Chaplin's directing style was also not covered, only snippets from "A Countess from Hong Kong" were shown.

Finally, Brando's having a 3D image of his likeness was shown, but it wasn't made too clear exactly what he envisioned the final utilized product would be. Again, this documentary brought up many fascinating topics and then didn't really demonstrate their significance.

On leaving this film, I thought, "here's a topic that could be made into a larger, three-part work and probably still have much footage to spare."


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