Listen to Me Marlon
Synopsis
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.
Production Budget Analysis
The production budget for Listen to Me Marlon (2015) has not been publicly disclosed.
CAST: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bette Davis, Montgomery Clift, Anna Kashfi, Dick Cavett DIRECTOR: Stevan Riley CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ole Bratt Birkeland MUSIC: Matthew Robert Cooper PRODUCTION: Passion Pictures, Cutler Productions
Box Office Performance
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Profitability Assessment
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INDUSTRY IMPACT
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Additional Recognition: * Winner – Best Documentary at The 2015 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards * Winner – IDA Creative Recognition Award for Best Writing * Winner – 2015 Peabody Award * Winner – Best Film Founders Prize at the Traverse City Film Festival 2015 * Nominated – Best Documentary BAFTA * Nominated – Best Documentary by The Phoenix Critics’ Circle * Nominated – Best Feature IDA Award * Nominated – Best Documentary at the 25th Gotham Independent Film Awards * Nominated – World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2015 * Nominated – Documentary Feature at the Montclair Film Festival 2015 * Nominated – Best Documentary at the 2015 Detroit Film Critics Society Awards * Included in The National Board of Review’s Top 5 Documentaries of 2015 * Shortlisted as one of the 15 Documentary films being considered for an Academy Award
CRITICAL RECEPTION
Upon its premiere in 2015, the film received positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96% based on 102 reviews, with an average rating of 8.0/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Listen to Me Marlon offers a fascinating look at the inner life of a Hollywood icon, told in his own words."
The Village Voice called it "a masterpiece" and David Edelstein lists it as "the greatest, most searching documentary of an actor ever put on film." According to Vanity Fair, it "is a compelling documentary about Marlon Brando compiled entirely from private audio tapes the actor recorded at home, in business meetings, during hypnosis, in therapy, and during press interviews."
Variety writes Brando's "complexity is limned as well as a documentary possibly could manage... Made with the full cooperation of the Brando estate, the pic is a superbly crafted collage whose soundtrack is as complexly textured as the curation and editing of visual elements." As Rolling Stone summed it up: "You want Brando Confidential? Fine, you've got it."
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