Free stuff from FNB: Win ‘Blow Out’ or ‘The Maybelline Story’
Gerald C. has won March’s giveaway and will receive a copy of “Sweet Smell of Success,” recently rereleased by Criterion. For the April giveaway, I have two nice prizes and will pick two winners. First, the lovely people at Criterion will provide a copy of Brian DePalma’s 1981 neo-noir thriller, “Blow Out,” starring John Travolta, Nancy […]
‘Taxi Driver,’ the ultimate big-city bad dream, screens Sunday at TCM Classic Film Festival
Taxi Driver/1976/Columbia Pictures/113 min. One of the many highlights of the TCM Classic Film Festival is Sunday’s showing of “Taxi Driver” by Martin Scorsese, which this year turns 35. One of the most sordid urban nightmares ever, “Taxi Driver” stands as the ultimate big-city bad dream. And where else could it be set but New York […]
Channeling the ’40s with a half-moon manicure
If I do say so myself, I’m terrifically talented at wasting time. And so I recently whiled away an hour or three on a half-moon manicure, a ’40s look that has become popular again. The “half-moon” at the base of the nail is left plain or painted in a color that contrasts with the rest […]
The Young Lions
Though several concessions to the censors and the box-office were made in adapting Irwin Shaw’s bestseller The Young Lions to the screen, the end result is generally effective and satisfying. Set during World War II, the film concentrates on three individuals, one German, two American. Marlon Brando plays an idealistic German whose early fascination with […]
A Dry White White Season Has South African Premiere
As part of Nelson Mandela Day in South Africa the 1989 film A Dry White Season by Euzhan Palcy, starring Donald Sutherland and co-starring Marlon Brando in an Oscar nominated performance, will premiere for the first time on the African continent. http://www.screenafrica.com/page/news/film/1653082-Euzhan-Palcys-A-Dry-White-Season-premieres-in-South-Africa-on-Mandela-Day#.Va6Z7CpVikp
Hawai’i State Senate Honors The Brando & Richard Bailey in resiliency and sustainability
The Hawai’i State Senate recognizes, commends, and honors The Brando Tetiaroa, and Richard Bailey for their innovation in resiliency and sustainability. The Hawai’i State Senate is proud to recognize individuals and businesses that enrich the lives of our global community through responsible actions that promote ecologically friendly practices that are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable. […]
‘Long Falling’ a strangely intense neo noir with superb acting
Friday night was the noir series at the 15th annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) film festival in Los Angeles. My favorite: director Martin Provost’s “The Long Falling,” based on a Keith Ridgway novel, which follows a guilty woman in her fleeting days of freedom. Actress Yolande Moreau had her work cut out […]
Banish dull skin with a gentle, fragrant scrub
I just realized that I haven’t talked about cosmetics or beautifying since Jan. 12; how very unlike me! This has been a bad winter for dry skin and so I’m searching for products to help my parched hide. One of the first things I turn to is a good exfoliator to remove flaky skin. (Shaving […]
MARLON BRANDO NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2015 – SIGN UP FOR MORE MARLON BRANDO UPDATES AND SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
We want to start off this month’s news letter with a giant thank you. Over the summer we saw the theatrical release of the documentary film LISTEN TO ME MARLON in North America. With a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes (Certified Fresh!) and more importantly a massive audience approval, we couldn’t be more proud. Thank you everyone who came out and supported the […]
The Chase
All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn’s Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday when news filters in that wild […]
What’s new at the Aero, Egyptian: Hurray for Harlow!
Get your blonde on this Sunday at the American Cinematheque. Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre will host a Jean Harlow centennial tribute, co-presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles, featuring a slideshow, book signing and screening. Harlow’s birthday was today, March 3, 1911. The Cinematheque event starts at 2 p.m. Sunday with a slideshow on Harlow, […]
Brando as Godfather of Housing Crisis
‘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 […]