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Marlon Brando Centennial Retrospective Set for Italy’s Torino Film Festival
A Marlon Brando retro celebrating the centennial of the great actor's birth has been set at Italy’s Torino Film Festival by new chief Giulio Base.
Accordingly, an image of Brando – photographed when he was shooting Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” – is featuredon the poster for the fest’s upcoming 42nd edition, which will run Nov. 22-30. Torino is Italy’s preeminent event for young directors and indie cinema, and is where Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino screened their first works. Subsequent movies starring Brando set for the Torino retro comprise his unforgettable roles in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” (1972) and “Apocalypse Now” (1979); Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” (1972); Richard Donner’s “Superman” (1978); Euzhan Palcy’s “A Dry White Season” (1989); Jeremy Leven’s “Don Juan De Marco” (1994); and John Frankenheimer and Richard Stanley’s “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (1996).
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