One of the most famous, influential and powerful screen performances is the centrepiece of Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire – Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski. Roger Ebert: "Before this role, there was usually a certain restraint in American movie performances. Actors would portray violent emotions, but you could always sense a certain modesty that prevented them from displaying their feelings in raw nakedness. Brando held nothing back."
Regularly listed amongst the best films of all time (number 47 according the American Film Institute), this New Orleans-set adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play chonicles the dynamic between a former prostitute Blanche DuBois (Vivian Leigh), her sister Stella (Kim Hunter), and Stella's rough and sexually charged husband Stanley (Brando).
The film won three acting Oscars - Best Actress (Leigh), Supporting Actress (Hunter) and Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). Brando was nominated for Best Actor but lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen.
Marlon Brando steals the show from Vivien Leigh in the blistering 1951 classic...
Marlon Brando didn't win the Academy Award in 1951 for his acting in "A Streetcar Named Desire." The Oscar went to Humphrey Bogart, for "The African Queen." But you could make a good case that no performance had more influence on modern film acting styles than Brando's work as Stanley Kowalski, Tennessee Williams' rough, smelly, sexually charged hero.
Inner torments are seldom projected with such sensitivity and clarity on the screen.
Quite simply, fabulous...
Simply a masterful adap of Tennessee Williams' sultry, searing play and an affirmation of Marlon Brando's acting genius.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 4th Feb 2010.
Release date: February 4th 2010.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
