FESTIVAL CELEBRATING LEGENDARY ACTOR'S GREATEST ROLES AT FILM FORUM, AUGUST 7-11

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A five-day, ten-film tribute to MARLON BRANDO (1924-2004), featuring his most iconic performances, from On the Waterfront toThe Godfather, will run at Film Forum from Friday, August 7 through Tuesday, August 11.

The series kicks off on Friday, August 7 with a superb 4K restoration of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, with Brando in his Oscar-winning role as ex-boxer/longshoreman Terry Malloy. Kazan said, "If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film in America, I don't know what it is."

The series includes many of Brando’s greatest films, including a 4K restoration of Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire (only Brando’s second film, and first collaboration with the director), Kazan’s biopic of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, Viva Zapata!, in a new restoration, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Julius Caesar, Laslo Benedek’s seminal biker movie The Wild One, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Gillo Pontecorvo’s rarely-seen Burn!, the x-rated version of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, Coppola’sApocalypse Now, and Andrew Bergman’s meta comedy The Freshman, with Brando as a character who’s very similar to a certain other ionic role.

BRANDO is presented in conjunction with Film Forum’s premieres screen, which will screen new documentary Listen to me Marlon from July 29-August 11.

Select screeners available, please contact rachel@filmforum.org.
Public Screening Schedule (all separate admissions)
AUGUST 7 FRI
ON THE WATERFRONT (1954, Elia Kazan) 4K DCP Restoration
12:30, 5:10, 7:30
THE WILD ONE (1953, Laslo Benedek) DCP
2:45 

LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1973, Bernardo Bertolucci) 35mm

9:45 ONLY
AUGUST 8 SAT
THE GODFATHER (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) DCP
1:00, 6:45
THE FRESHMAN (1990, Andrew Bergman) 35mm
4:30
THE WILD ONE (1953, Laslo Benedek) DCP
10:20
AUGUST 9 SUN
VIVA ZAPATA! (1952, Elia Kazan) 4K DCP restoration
12:30
BURN! (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo) 35mm
2:50
JULIUS CAESAR (1953, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) 35mm
5:30
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) DCP
8:00
AUGUST 10 MON
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951, Elia Kazan) 4K DCP
12:30, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55
VIVA ZAPATA! (1952, Elia Kazan) New DCP Restoration
3:00
AUGUST 11 TUES
BURN! (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo) 35mm
12:30
JULIUS CAESAR (1953, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) 35mm
3:30
VIVA ZAPATA! (1952, Elia Kazan) New DCP Restoration
6:10
APOCALYPSE NOW (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) DCP
8:30