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1 day ago · October 1, 2024. By RAY KELLY. A young British filmmaker is raising funds online for My Friend Orson Welles, a film short that promises a realistic look at how someone with a physical disability and mental health issues embraces love and romance. A graduate of Northern Film School at Leeds Beckett University, writer-director Sam Judd said that ...
5 days ago · Citizen Kane, American film drama, released in 1941, that was directed, produced, and cowritten by Orson Welles, who also starred in the lead role. A landmark work in the history of cinema, Citizen Kane is acclaimed by many critics as the greatest movie ever made.
4 days ago · Its convoluted plot centres on a sailor (Welles) who gets unknowingly drawn into a complex murder plot when he meets and falls in love with a woman (Rita Hayworth) who hires him to crew the yacht that she and her husband are sailing to San Francisco. Full of double-crossing and subterfuge, it culminates in a hall of mirrors at a carnival funhouse.
2 days ago · Directed by Orson Welles Image via RKO Radio Pictures Another one of the films that Coppola himself has admitted influenced his Megalopolis , Citizen Kane is referred to by many as perhaps the ...
5 days ago · Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles): Pauline Kael claims that Welles’ debut film – the wonder boy was just twenty-five – is “more fun than any other great movie.”
1 day ago · H.G. Wells' novel, The War Of The Worlds, has spawned countless adaptions, including seven films and the most infamous 1938 radio broadcast directed by Orson Welles, which incited widespread panic as many listeners thought the events they heard through the radio were a genuine news story.
2 days ago · Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. [1][2][3][4][5][6] She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe ...
