Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
[Touch of Evil] might suggest that an instinct for grandiose melodrama is proving the most durable element in Orson Welles' still formidable talent. After th...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
Elaborate in style and provocative in essence, Touch of Evil affirms the Orson Welles flair, which many have imitated but hardly any have equalled. As auteur and actor he...
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Question 1 of 10:Before a wrist injury made it impossible, the young
Dietrich
was set to become a professional...?
Violinist
Tennis playerPainterFashion designerQuestion 2 of 10:
Dietrich
train...
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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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Orson Welles is the one that got away, the director with the greatest gifts and the strangest career, a man whose run of programmed bad luck eventually engulfed a bevy of biographers.
Books about ...
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Orson Welles is the one that got away, the director with the greatest gifts and the strangest career, a man whose run of programmed bad luck eventually engulfed a bevy of biographers.
Books about...
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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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While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achievements and non-achievements, I consulted what I wrote last year—and I was struck by how app...
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While I was trying to decide how I would introduce my customary list of the past year’s achievements and non-achievements, I consulted what I wrote last year—and I was struck by how app...
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Chita!Like Madonna, Marlene or Liza, one name says it all. And there is room for only one. She shines. She sparkles. She glows. She lights up a room. Singer, dancer, actress, chorus girl and star, ...
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As far as I can determine, 2004 seems to be neither the best nor the worst year for movies, at least as far as the proportion of good (low, as always) to bad (high, as always) is concerned. Of cour...
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Writer-director Paul Greengrass’ United 93 has by now been widely—and, I believe, extravagantly—overpraised for not exploiting or sensationalizing the last catastrophic flight of ...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
Femme Fatale: A MarleneDietrich Quiz
