BIG PICTURE
MARLON BRANDO: A RETROSPECT IVE
From brooding icon to tragic recluse, Marlon Brando remains an elusive figurehead in screen history. With this lengthy retrospective, Edinburgh's Filmhouse charts the success of one of Holywood’s greatest stars, from swaggering to fame as the definitive Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, through his Oscar-winning turn in On the Waterfront and the controversy of Last Tango in Paris to mumbling his way through a mouthful of orange peel in The Godfather. There’s also a chance to see Francis Ford Coppola’s cut of Apocalypse Now, for which the star was reportedly paid $1 million for a three week shoot. Filmhouse will also screen TCM’s documentary, Brando, which attempts to shed light on a man who shunned media attention.
I Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Wed 6 Jul—Wed 75 Aug; TCM from Mon 23 Jul.