Rétrospective

A Rebel Named Brando

Marlon Brando, who was born 100 years ago in April, was, by all accounts, not always an easy man in real life. But he was without a doubt one of the greatest American actors who influenced generations with his fiercely committed and complex portrayals of men struggling with their feelings. The stage thespian’s first major film role, in 1950’s The Men (aka Battle Stripe) directed by Fred Zinneman, was an immediate home run, with The Hollywood Reporter already singling Brando out as a new star.

In the 1950s alone, the list of iconic roles is long: Julius Caesar, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Wild One, Viva Zapata! and On the Waterfront, all of which will be screened during our two-month retrospective that will conclude at the end of April.

Though often cast as a rebel or a tough guy – but with a sensitive soul – Brando also repeatedly demonstrated his impressive range. He was Superman’s alien father but also a lawyer in apartheid South Africa in A Dry White Season. He was a slick, singing gambler in the musical Guys and Dolls but also the delirious Colonel Kurtz in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, shown in the Redux version on glorious celluloid.

The film that gave Brando his most recognisable role, as the title character in The Godfather, will screen on his birthday, April 3. And during the same month, we’ll show The Freshmen, a crime comedy in which Brando plays an Italo-American gangster who looks suspiciously… like the lead from The Godfather. Only someone as intense, talented and rebellious as Brando would dare to play the character of Don Corleone so close to satire whilst always remaining emotionally credible. And then do it again, but now on the other side of satire, some decades later.

I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armour because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Programme en mars

Ma 12 | 03 à 21h00 : The Wild One (USA 1953 | László Benedek | vostFR | 77’) 

Me 13 | 03 à 18h30 : Apocalypse Now Redux (USA 1979/2001 | Francis Ford Coppola | vostFR | 201') 
Glorious Films on Film

Ve 15 | 03 à 20h30 : Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (USA 1991 | Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola | documentaire | vostFR | 95’) 
Ticket gratuit pour les personnes ayant assisté à la projection d’Apocalypse Now Redux du 13 mars, sur présentation du ticket (papier ou numérique) à la caisse du soir.

Sa 16 | 03 à 16h00 : Superman (USA 1978 | Richard Lester | vostFR | 143’) 

Lu 18 | 03 à 20h15 : On the Waterfront (USA 1954 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 108’) 

Ma 19 | 03 à 20h30 : A Dry White Season (USA 1989 | Euzhan Palcy | vostFR | 105’) 

Je 21 | 03 à 21h00 : The Wild One (USA 1953 | László Benedek | vostFR | 77’) 

Ma 26 | 03 à 18h30On the Waterfront (USA 1954 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 108’) 

Programme en avril

Lu 01 | 04 à 20h30 : A Streetcar Named Desire (USA 1951 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 125’) 

Me 03 | 04 à 19h00 : The Godfather (USA 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | vostFR | 175’) 

Je 04 | 04 à 18h30 : The Men (USA 1950 | Fred Zinnemann | vostFR | 86’) 

Lu 08 | 04 à 20h30 : Julius Caesar (USA 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | vostFR | 120’) 

Ma 09 | 04 à 18h30 : Listen to Me Marlon (UK 2015 | Stevan Riley | documentaire | vo | 103’)

Je 11 | 04 à 18h30 : Viva Zapata ! (USA 1952 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 113’) 

Lu 15 | 04 à 20h30 : The Men (USA 1950 | Fred Zinnemann | vostFR | 86’) 

Lu 22 | 04 à 20h30 : Viva Zapata ! (USA 1952 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 113’) 

Ma 23 | 04 à 20h30 : A Streetcar Named Desire (USA 1951 | Elia Kazan | vostFR | 125’) 

Ma 30 | 04 à 20h30 : The Freshman (USA 1990 | Andrew Bergman | vostFR | 102’) 

Programme en mai

Me 01 | 05 à 19h00 : Guys and Dolls(USA 1955 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | vostFR | 150’) 

Je 02 | 05 à 20h30 : Julius Caesar (USA 1953 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | vostFR | 120’) 

Lu 06 | 05 à 18h30 : The Freshman (USA 1990 | Andrew Bergman | vostFR | 102’) 

Me 08 | 05 à 19h00 : The Godfather (USA 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola | vostFR | 175’) 

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