Orson Welles

Orson Welles news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Orson Welles performances. According to Wikipedia: George Orson Welles was an American theater and film producer and director, and a theater, radio and film actor. Welles first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it panicked a large number of listeners. Welles and his biographers subsequently claimed he was exposing the gullibility of American audiences in the tense preamble to the Second World War. In the mid-Thirties his New York theater adaptations of a voodoo Macbeth and a contemporary Julius Caesar became legendary. Welles was also a practiced magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. During this period he became a serious political activist and commentator through journalism, radio and public appearances closely associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Citizen Kane, most often chosen in polls of film critics as one of the greatest films ever made.

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Me and Orson Welles

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Description: Plot : Will be available soon !! Me and Orson Welles movie is Directed By : Richard Linklater Starring : Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin... | Category: Romance , Foreign , Adaptation Read Full Story

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Video interview: Orson Welles

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A blast from the past: Something I originally posted in June 2008. The Internet never ceases to amaze me. Below is an excerpt from an interview with Orson Welles . I've never seen it before today, never even knew of its existence until I started bumping around the web. Two things about the interview. First, Welles reveals that the idea of 'home' is very important to him because as a child, his family moved multiple times, so he never really had what he would call a home. Second, he confesses that his least favorite thing about Citizen Kane was Rosebud -- he calls it ... Read Full Story

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"Orson Welles' Original War of the Worlds Broadcast Returns"

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Per FirstShowing.net : With our society's extensive use of the internet, viral marketing has become an invaluable tool for movie marketing. In recent years I think it's safe to say The Dark Knight is the reigning champion for best viral marketing campaign which inspired activity from people all over the world. However, the greatest publicity stunt ever achieved goes all the way back to 1938, when Orson Welles' radio broadcast of H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds created unparalleled panic and fear of a real alien invasion. Now, exactly 71 years later, the broadcast will return as a live stream brought to you ... Read Full Story

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Orson Welles' 'War of the Worlds' Online Friday Night

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I know a thing or two about the legendary War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938. It served as the initial inspiration for my master's thesis covering what was called "First Person Singular," the then-revolutionary narrative technique Orson Welles employed in his radio dramas, and how his later film writing owed such a debt to those early days of radio. Before Welles, only 23 at the time of War of the Worlds , almost all radio dramas employed a narrator separate from the story, but Orson figured rightly that you could tell those stories more efficiently by giving the exposition to a central character. ... Read Full Story

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20 Most Anticipated Period Films (Part 1)

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There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized. - - - - - - Some highly anticipated period flicks such as Bright Star, Coco Before Chanel and Inglourious Basterds have been shown already, ... Read Full Story

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Touch of genius: Orson Welles at the IFI

To mark the re-release of Citizen Kane, the IFI Temple Bar is currently running a season of Orson Welles films. Today, at 2pm, his 1944 thriller The Lady from Shanghai, will be shown. A stylish film noir, the film is marred only by Welles' dodgy Irish accent (he plays an ex-IRA man) but graced by an enigmatic performance from his then-wife Rita Hayworth.

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A daughter’s take on Orson Welles

NEW YORK (AP) — No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that Feder says have yet to capture her father’s many-sided life.

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