Marlon Brando
Stage frights: five of the most shocking moments in Oscars history
Will Smith isn’t the only actor to cause consternation at the world’s most coveted film awards
Hannah J Davies
28, Mar, 2022 @3:47 PM
The Godfather review – a brutal sweep of magnificent storytelling
Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama
Peter Bradshaw
23, Feb, 2022 @4:00 PM
Last Tango in Paris: story behind Bertolucci’s film to become TV series
Released in 1972, and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, Last Tango became notorious for its graphic sex scenes and treatment of 19-year-old female lead
Andrew Pulver
29, Nov, 2021 @11:52 AM
‘I owe an enormous debt to therapy!’ Rita Moreno on West Side Story, dating Brando and joy at 90
She overcame racism and abuse to break Hollywood, romanced Brando, dated Elvis to make him jealous, fought hard for civil rights and won an Egot. Now in her 10th decade, she is busier and happier than ever
Simon Hattenstone
29, Nov, 2021 @6:00 AM
‘I promised Brando I would not touch his Oscar’: the secret life of Sacheen Littlefeather
In 1973, she made history at the Academy Awards, appearing in place of Marlon Brando, declining his statuette and making a speech about Native American rights. She has been speaking out ever since
Steve Rose
03, Jun, 2021 @5:00 AM
Hear me out: why The Island of Dr Moreau isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers recommending maligned films is a defense of the troubled 1996 adaptation of the HG Wells cautionary tale
Zach Vasquez
08, Feb, 2021 @7:11 AM
A Streetcar Named Desire review – hard times in the Big Easy
The toxic chemistry between Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando isn’t all about sex in the 1951 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play, now rereleased
Peter Bradshaw
06, Feb, 2020 @1:00 PM
How Hollywood feted the black power movement – and fell foul of the FBI
The biopic Seberg tells the tragic story of film star Jean Seberg who – along with Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda – gave money and public support for the Black Panthers
Lanre Bakare
05, Dec, 2019 @3:26 PM
Over-40 actors still fighting the ageism that stymied Judy Garland
Renée Zellweger’s Garland biopic is a powerful reminder of the attitudes that infect youth-obsessed Hollywood
Kia Rahnama
30, Sep, 2019 @12:27 PM
Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film'
Forty years since its first release, the director has been reworking his masterpiece for a definitive edition. How does he view his film – and the madness of its making – after all these years?
Kevin EG Perry
09, Aug, 2019 @5:00 AM
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut review – crazed exposé of the heart of darkness
From Marlon Brando’s extraordinary cameo to Dennis Hopper’s crazed photojournalist, Coppola’s epic ‘definitive’ cut of his brilliant 1979 war film is triumphant in restating the inhumanity of empire
Peter Bradshaw
07, Aug, 2019 @4:00 PM
Sex factor: Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci's transgressive legacy
Roeg and Bertolucci were among the first directors to use explicit eroticism to bring psychological depth to their films – a sensibility cast in a new light by #MeToo
Ryan Gilbey
26, Nov, 2018 @5:34 PM
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