Articles tagged "marlon brando"

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse

by George Tiller

[19.Dec.07] :. The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness.

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The Nightcomers

by Brian Holcomb

[31.Jul.07] :. If you’ve never seen Jack Clayton’s film version of the James story, The Innocents or are just a fan of Brando, The Nightcomers will be mildly entertaining.

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The Godfather: Blackhand Edition

by Kevin Garcia

[11.Jun.07] :. Man, there's something really satisfying about hitting someone.

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Brando

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.07] :. Brando is most original and inspiring when it looks at Brando's other work. As Bobby Seale remembers, "If I said, 'Constitutional democratic civil human rights,' I mean, it lit him up."

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Documentary shows the impact Brando had on acting

by Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.May.07] :. Al Pacino first saw “On the Waterfront” at a triple feature at the local movie house. The 14-year-old was so blown away that he sat through the two other movies again just so he could...

 

Two-part documentary Brando, May 1-2 on TCM

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. A new profile of actor Marlon Brando is—with apologies to Tennessee Williams—stellar, stellar. Brando examines the iconic actor, impassioned activist and conflicted man. The...

 
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The Dick Cavett Show - Hollywood Greats

by Matt Mazur

[16.Feb.07] :. This is not only an entertaining, funny, and smart guide to the glory days of Hollywood; it is an essential and useful tool for film historians.

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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

 

The Score (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

...it's boy-movie-making 101, a very traditional plot point indeed.

 

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Apocalypse Now' -- 'Redux' or regular -- is well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions. In both versions, it's that rare movie that looks hard at the culture that produced it.

 

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Tobias Peterson

'Apocalypse Now Redux', ultimately, allows us to celebrate a film that has become indelibly ingrained into American popular consciousness while, at the same time, forcing us to question the violence and inhumanity that characterize the troubling past of this same culture.