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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... [more]
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.
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...
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It has been 50 years since
Touch of Evil made a small ripple as a seedy little crime movie, but since then, that ripple has become a tidal wave of appreciation for not just the film but also its director,
Orson Welles.
Welles could never live up to
Citizen Kane, his debut made as a 25-year-old maverick that would eventually be remembered by most critics as the greatest, most influential film of all time. It's doubtful that any director could match Kane, regardless of whether or not it...
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"ANNOUNCER: I'm speaking from the roof of the Broadcasting Building -- I'm speaking from the roof of the Broadcasting Building, New York City. The bells you hear are ringing to warn the people to evacuate the city as the Martians approach. Estimated in last two hours three million people have moved out along the roads to the north -- Hutchison River Parkway still kept open for motor traffic. Avoid bridges to Long Island -- hopelessly jammed. All communication with Jersey shore closed ten...
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We take a look back at one of the great crime films ever made, a film noir that was immediately forgotten about but now is revered as a classic: Orson Welles' 'Touch of Evil,' celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. - Post from bigpicturecolin on Digg Sample from story: It has been half a century since Touch of Evil made a small ripple as a seedy little crime movie, but since then, that ripple has become a tidal wave of appreciation for not just the film but also its director, Orson...
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CINEMA RETRO'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF BRAVELY GOES AGAINST THE GRAIN AND TAKES ON THE NEW HIT MOVIE VERSION OF GET SMARTWhen I finally caught up with the new Get Smart feature film that is doing sensational business in its opening week, I couldn't help but think of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane. You...
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Made in just 23 days, Orson Welles‘ black-and-white experiment combines cinematic visuals with theatrical acting and design and a radio director’s emphasis ...
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Flipping channels on a Saturday evening, I found myself arrested by some shockingly erudite dialogue in a black-and-white movie starring Edward G. Robinson and someone who I vaguely suspected of being Orson Welles. The man who looked like a young Orson was saying some very nasty things about...
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' Orson Welles was born on May 16, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was educated at the Todd School, Woodstock, IL.
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The ad borrows from the style of Orson Welles' 1938 radio announcement that Martians were landing on Earth. The ad borrows from the style of Orson Welles' ...
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The Brick Theater, Inc. presents a Gemini CollisionWorks production THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Orson Welles: A Reconstruction for the Stage as part of The ...
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Circuit Playhouse - 1705 Poplar (Midtown) 726-4656. Orson's Shadow . play about Orson Welles directing Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in the absurdist masterpiece Rhinoceros . Through July 6.
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M. Night Shyamalan thinks he is our modern-day Alfred Hitchcock; actually, he is closer in spirit to Orson Welles.
Welles was a director beset with image problems, who was unable to outgrow his reputation as the director of the masterpiece "Citizen Kane." Each subsequent picture was compared...
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THEATER: Orson Welles’s 1942 film adaptation of The Magnificent Ambersons was famously screwed by the studio, RKO, who took out 40 minutes against Welles's ...
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Not only will the festival show Orson Welles' classic 1950s film noir, "Touch of Evil" -- which marks its 50th anniversary this year -- but Welles' eldest ...
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