Marlon Brando
L'enfant terrible
Had he not been an actor, Marlon Brando once wrote, he would have become a criminal—specifically, a con artist. Take him at his word. Too many complain that Brando, the greatest actor of his generation, wasted his life in futile rebellions and left far too few masterworks in his wake, especially measured against his potential; but considering his sincere confession of criminal potential, we can be grateful for the little we have. The actor who starred so unforgettably in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Wild One, On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and Last Tango in Paris certainly owes no apologies to posterity.
The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.
All the icons in the first 20 books of the series were voted for by over 7500 TASCHEN readers in a special online poll!
About the Series:
More bang for your buck! "... a fast-food, high-energy fix on the topic at hand." The New York Times Book Review
About the author:
F. X. Feeney is a screenwriter and critic based in Los Angeles. His film credits include The Big Brass Ring, based on a story by Orson Welles, and Frankenstein Unbound, directed by Roger Corman, while his reviews have appeared in L.A. Weekly and other publications. F. X. has also authored TASCHEN's Michael Mann and Polanski.
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Marlon Brando
Duncan, Paul (Editor)
Feeney, F. X. Flexicover, 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.), 192 pages $ 9.99 |
- Reviews (7 items)
"Biografías de las personalidades más destacadas del mundo del cine. Mucho se ha hablado del glamour de Hollywood, de esos insignes estudios por los que pululaban más estrellas que en el cielo, de esos actores que más que actores eran dioses...y diosas. La era dorada del cine...todo tiempo pasado fue mejor, ¿no? Movie Icons se ha creado para homenajear a los grandes del cine, a las iconos a las grandes estrellas, a los inolvidables del cine. Son pequeñas biografías visuales de 192 páginas cada una. Para cada título, el editor Paul Duncan ha seleccionado aproximadamente 150 imágenes de gran calidad, retratos a la vez enigmáticos y suntuosos, poster de gran colorido, tarjetas y raros fotogramas así como antiguas fotos de cada uno que los presentan tal como eran. Cada libro viene acompañado de una corta pero magnífica introducción a cargo de especialistas. Cada libro incluye una cronología, una filmografía, una bibliografía y por supuesto va salpimentado de algunas anécdotas y frases de películas y de la vida de cada uno."
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
Galaxia Comics, Madrid, Spain
- Clippings (2 items)
Movie Icons
Bordeaux Madame, France, March 01, 2007
Bordeaux Madame, France, March 01, 2007
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