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4 days ago · In fact, Welles' final film, The Other Side of the Wind, wasn’t released until nearly five decades after it first began production. It seems like every great director has a "film that got away ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Specifically, Cotten's comparison of the original ending of Ambersons to Checkov refers to the extraordinary, low-key, sotto voce, life-goes-on, creaking rocking chairs ending of Uncle Vanya. Was this an inspiration for Welles? It is not as bleak as the Amberson ending, since it does not involve Fanny's poverty or the larger devastation of old age.
4 days ago · “Hyman Roth is who he should have been. They all should have been like that, and none of them were.” Going one step further, Welles blasted The Godfather as “the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed,” calling the concept of “the classy gangster” a fiction created entirely by film.
Jul 6, 2024 · Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles, is a gripping mystery thriller. The plot centers on Guy Van Stratten, an American smuggler, who is tasked by the enigmatic billionaire...
Jul 9, 2024 · The bravura opening shot of Orson Welles ‘ “ Touch of Evil ” — in which the camera begins on a close-up of a ticking bomb and then pulls back to present the bomb’s journey to detonation via a...
Jun 21, 2024 · Celebrating the genius of this extraordinary artist with my published look at the turbulent life and career of Orson Welles, the fabulous, visionary film maker whose personal demons sadly overshadowed his staggering talent, and finally, tragically destroyed him.
Jun 20, 2024 · Orson Welles had allowed himself to be castrated once again by a marauding band of company jackals. Eventually, Touch of Evil was restored to its director’s “cut” but far too late for Welles to enjoy the blossoming fruit of his artistic labors.
