Marlon Brando In The Sixties

I remember reading some film mag where they described a 'featurette' where MB was being interviewed by a girl reporter about his latest "trifle" of a film, himself casually dismissive of the new movie but charming the interviewer, and she basically giving him the "fuckmenow" eyes..

Saw that. I think the movie being discussed was "Morituri". Voted "Burn!"

I think I wd vote for one of the Eye movies but I think I wd like to watch all these in one big session

voting "chase"

i've only seen a rly shitty print of "burn"

Yes, I like "The Chase" too

prob between Reflections in a Golden Eye and One-Eyed Jacks.

(I haven't seen six of these, of course)

Yep. But I'm sure none touches his work in Reflections.

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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) .... Maj. Weldon Penderton 0

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I saw The Chase for the first time last week. Hoberman and Robin Wood consider it among the key films of the mid-'60s--it was actually part of a series commemorating Wood at Toronto's AGO. I don't know...it definitely held my interest, but I can't see that I'd ever want to see it again. It was considerably better than Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, a truly bizarre enthusiasm of Wood's, I'll give it that.

Didn't care hugely for The Chase when I saw it... butchered by the producer, Penn says.

I wound up going for 1EJ, as I thought Refections, being the most flamboyant of his nonbad performances, would win in a landslide.

I'll have to go back to The Dream Life and reread Hoberman on The Chase. As I remember it, he saw certain American films as extensions of whoever was president at the time--in this case, Johnson, elsewhere JFK or Nixon. The Johnson presidency was certainly becoming something of mess by '66, so in that sense, I can see the parallel with The Chase; throw in the Texas locale and the Ruby-Oswald reenactment, and maybe he has a point.

hoberman devoting so much ink to the chase in his awesome 60s book was why i saw it in the first place; voted for it but looking at that vote total regret not voting reflections - holy shit that movie.

always wanted to see that apparently insane film the goldwater campaign made but didn't release though i suspect compared to present day it would seem fairly innocuous (ha like goldwater). anyone here read the magic hour - loved the dream life and esp loved its approach and understand hoberman does a similar thing there.

Definitely a great book, even if he loses me a bit on The Chase; hope I didn't imply otherwise. I've been meaning to watch Major Dundee, another mid-'60s free-for-all he reads a lot into. Haven't read The Magic Hour.

yeah i didn't even realize the magic hour was a similar approach until i looked up dream life on amazon (paperback $6 new right now btw) to try to find out more details about that crazy campaign film and reading the blurb saying he did the same thing for the 90s with the magic hour. the nuggets - freedomland u.s.a., 'eve of correction' (i'm a total sucker for that kind of garbage - looking forward to byron macgregor popping up on oldies radio tomorrow) - are great also. genuinely changed the way i watch films - great book!

"Countess" is not a bad way to spend an evening. Kind of fails as a romantic comedy but wins as a mid-century inter-continental screwball comedy on a fancy ship. Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren being classy and cool and kind of old hollywood. I thought the tropey socialite side character was pretty funny too. Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, and even composed the music!