Listen to Me Marlon
Crit
OK, I think we can all agree that filmmaker Stevan Riley's strategy of digitizing Brando's disembodied cranium into Max Headroom's nonstuttering brother Mar was a Bad Idea, and we can also agree that the discovery of a huge trove of the actor's personal cassette tapes of memoir, film commentary, meditative "self-hypnosis," and philosophy falls into the category of luck-too-good-to-be-true, but let's give him credit: he has interleaved this miscellany with judiciously chosen film clips to fashion a compelling film biography of the greatest actor this continent has produced. Particularly revealing are clips of the heretofore mythic (to me anyway) figure Stella Adler in the classroom and explaining the Method to an interviewer.
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