Listen to Me Marlon

2015
Unrated
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

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With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

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A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

YOUR RATING

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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 5 wins & 21 nominations total

Self
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Stella Adler

Self
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(uncredited)

Bernardo Bertolucci

Self
(archive footage)
(voice)
(uncredited)

Michael Borne

Young Marlon Brando
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Marlon Brando Sr.

Self
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(uncredited)

Christian Brando

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Dick Cavett

Self
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Connie Chung

Self
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(uncredited)

Montgomery Clift

Self
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(uncredited)

Francis Ford Coppola

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Bette Davis

Self
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(uncredited)

Joel Grey

Self
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Anna Kashfi

Self
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Elia Kazan

Self
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Robert F. Kennedy

Self
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Martin Luther King

Self
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(uncredited)

Sacheen Littlefeather

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Dorothy Malone

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Director
- Stevan Riley
Writers
- Stevan Riley
- Peter Ettedgui
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Trivia
A documentary made entirely out of archive footage and Marlon Brando's own words from recordings, confessionals, and self hypnosis.

Quotes
Marlon Brando, Himself: Everything that you do - make it real as you can. Make it alive. Make it tangible. Find the truth of that moment.

Connections
Features Les Lumières de la ville (1931)

Soundtracks
Infra 1
Written by Max Richter
Performed by Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Nick Barr (as Nick Carr), Ian Burdge and Chris Worsey

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Brando on Brando

Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

**** (out of 4)

We are told that when Marlon Brando died in 2004 he left behind hundreds of hours worth of audio recordings that he made throughout his life. This rather unique documentary has Brando telling us his life story by using these audio recordings as well as some older interview footage.

Writer, director and editor Stevan Riley really did an amazing job here because it couldn't have been easy to take all of these audio recordings and put them into a "story" that it's clear and makes sense. The documentary covers Brando's early years with his parents and then gets into his movie career where it's clear the actor wasn't his fondest fan. Films like ON THE WATERFRONT, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE GODFATHER and LAST TANGO IN Paris get some great talk but there's also some great audio footage dealing with Brando's "lost" period in the 60s when he was basically just doing films for the money.

Brando's life had all sorts of bad things happen including the various issues with is son and daughter. Those sad topics are covered here as well as other issues including his battle over the treatment of Indians. If you're a fan of Brando then you're certainly going to love this documentary because, well, the actor was a rather private person and didn't give too many interviews so it was great getting to hear his thoughts on life, himself and of course the movies.