Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
Considered by many to be the most influential and innovative filmmaker of the twentieth century, Orson Welles made movies that were ambitious, original, and epic. This alone ...
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Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
When Orson Welles's name is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is Citizen Kane (1941), which is still considered to be one of the best films in the history ...
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Orson Welles (1915-1985) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, radio actor, and film director. His earliest film production, Citizen Kane, was his most famous, although most of his other productions we...
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Considered an artistic genius, Orson Welles was involved in productions for radio, theatre, film, and television in a career spanning more than forty years. He was found to be exceptional as a child--...
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Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
The most disconcerting thing about Orson Welles's screen version of The Trial is that in retrospect it doesn't seem to matter. At the moment, it is entert...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
Well disposed as I am toward the Orson Welles Macbeth and Othello, I feel bound to call his Chimes at Midnight the most mature of his Shakespearean excursions, and to hop...
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Critical Essay by William Johnson
Judged by first—even second or third—impressions, Welles's films are a triumph of show over substance. His most memorable images seem like eleph...
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Critical Essay by Charles Higham
[Welles's] personality as an artist is on the scale of a Hugo, a Balzac: he is expansive, grand, capricious, sometimes gross in his style; maddeningly prone to...
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Critical Essay by Charles Silver
It's not very hard to find things wrong with The Immortal Story…. The sound, at least in the English-language version is rather bad. The lighting, sets,...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mcbride
Welles' film audience is missing a revealing experience in not being able to see [his made-for-television film] The Fountain of Youth. Its mixture of bold thea...
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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter
[Though] I expected The Trial to be bad, I went to it truly hoping for the best. And, in fact, though I expected it to be bad, bad as a mannerist painting can be ...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mcbride
It is clear that Welles's films are not moralistic in the sense that Howard Hawks's are, for example—as fables of exemplary behaviour; and just a...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
Orson Welles casts such a gigantic shadow that it becomes difficult to realise that in fact only six films (five if one chooses to discount the equivocal Journey in...
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The new "Transformers" movie boasts a good cast, but it's got nothing on the original.In a classic bit of movie trivia, the little-seen 1986 animated film "Transformers: The Movie" was Orson Welles...
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(Embargoed for release at 12:01 a.m. EDT
Tuesday, Oct. 16) By Bob Tourtellotte LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It won only one Oscar, but
Orson Welles' 1941 film "Citizen Kane" is widely considered his
be...
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Emilio Ruiz del Rio, the award-winning Spanish set decorator and visual and special effects wizard who worked on such films as "Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has died, a...
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Foreign stars and mavericks grab Oscar glory LOS ANGELES...
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The woman who has overseen more than two dozen career-achievement awards given by the American Film Institute was honored Thursday for her own life's work.Jean Picker Firstenberg, who is retiring a...
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Oct 23 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 30 since 1900: 1918 - The Slovaks agreed to a union with the Czechs under
the name of Czechoslovakia. 1918 - T...
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Background Info
Peter
Sallis
was born in Middlesex on 1 February 1921. Although his talent as a performer was apparent at school, he didn't start to make a name for himself until after World War ...
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Question 1 of 10:
Dali
was born to a Catholic mother and atheist father in which region of
Spain
?a) Andalusia (0)b) Catalonia (1)c) Canary Islands (0)d)
Valencia
(0)Question 2 of 10:
Dali
w...
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Liquor heir Matthew Bronfman paid $3 million in 1994 for his old townhouse on East 67th Street, and sold the place this year for $33 million.According to a deed filed today in city records, he clos...
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The story of the long tracking shot would be best told in one take.Our camera could begin with Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil," pass through Jean-Luc Godard's "Week End" and Martin Scorsese's "Goodfe...
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