Listen To Me Marlon (2015)

LISTEN TO ME MARLON  (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Steven Riley
Marlon Brando's life and career, documented with clips from his films, home movies, television news footage, and - most revealing - excerpts from audio tapes the actor recorded over the years. Many consider Brando the most influential actor of the 20th century, and there's no doubt that at his best he was electrifying. Other times he seemed content to phone it in or piss it away, collecting an oversized paycheck and not even bothering to hide his indifference. (His own critique of his work in "Candy" and "A Countess From Hong Kong" is lacerating.) Like some of his characters, he was smart, brooding, sensitive, angry, mischievous, sometimes passionate, often bored, sexually voracious and emotionally mixed-up, his mercurial behavior motivated by intense creative ambition and equally intense self-loathing. He might've come off like a guy who had wandered too far up his own navel, but for better or worse, there was nobody else like him, and you can see some of that here. And hear some of it, too.