Elia Kazan: The legendary director who rejected Martin Scorsese
True pioneers.
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan names the greatest actor of all time: “I don’t think anybody’s as good”
Kazan believed the GOAT was someone he discovered.
Werner Herzog’s favourite Marlon Brando performance: “An enormous, virile power”
Not the star’s most famous work.
The career-making advice Eliza Kazan gave Bruce Dern: “How in the hell am I going to get away with that?”
Few better places to learn from.
Marlon Brando named the best director he ever worked with: “He’s a guy that works without ego”
“He works viscerally and on instinct.”
How James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Robert De Niro became three very different kinds of icon
Very different, equally legendary.
Stanley Kowalski: The character Marlon Brando thought he was the “antithesis” of
“I was sensitive by nature, and he was coarse, a man with unerring animal instincts.”
The two directors Spike Lee would loved to have seen on set
Even the greats are curious about how their peers operate.
Spike Lee’s three favourite movies of all time
The legendary filmmaker discusses his unbound passion for cinema.
