Marlon Brando
1979’s Apocalypse Now has achieved an almost cult-like status, and no war film has captured the depravity of war the same way since.
In Video Dispatches, we cover some of the newest home releases. This week: Morituri (1965), Warlock (1959), and Bronco Billy (1980).
Do we need to reassess our own reaction to extreme method acting and should there be a line, a limit, on how far actors should go?
Michelle Sabato, an Italian American herself, takes a closer look at The Godfather, and what “family” means to Italian Americans.
With masterful performances and finely tuned direction, A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the great adaptations of a play in cinema history.
The 60th annual London Film Festival has just drawn to a close, having shown 245 feature films from a number of different countries covering a plethora of genres. Not only that, but it has been a groundbreaking year with the British Film Institute (BFI) hosting a number of talks concerning diversity in the British film industry, while using the festival to announce the launch of its Black Star programme. It’s designed to celebrate and showcase the work of black film and television-makers in a series of talks, screenings and exhibitions running until the end of the year through a variety of theatrical and online platforms.