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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 first... [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.
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Since wrapping up his Disney career with High School Musical, Zac Efron has been soaring all throughout Hollywood. His recent effort, Me and Orson Welles, even got him inside the White House. But promoting the film wasn't the only thing on his agenda. The Hill reports that the 22-year-old actor was with Claire Danes and the acclaimed director of Me and Orson Welles, Richard Linklater in Washington D.C. last Tuesday. The trio didn't exactly...
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By TAMELA J. RITTER
Hour Correspondent
Author Chris Welles Feder is fully aware there are many other biographies of iconic filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, but few biographers know their subject matter more than she knows hers.
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“I’ve never liked talking about art or literature in general, and I’ve always hated artists who talk about their work rather than doing it.”
-Orson Welles
The man voted Greatest Director of All Time by the British Film Institute essentially said that deconstruction and criticism of art and literature were things he didn’t dare think about because [...]
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- War Of The Worlds (weeklydig.com)
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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Efron, Danes and Linklater at the Georgetown AMC for a screening of "Me and Orson Welles" and a Q&A.;
Actors Zac Efron and Claire Danes were in DC yesterday for a screening of "Me and Orson Welles" at the AMC in Georgetown. Director Richard Linklater joined the stars for press at CBS and WaPo earlier that afternoon, as well as a visit to the White House-- with someone who's no stranger to Hollywood, Kal Penn.
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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...
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Yes, Christian McKay looks a lot like Orson Welles in the utterly charming holiday comedy Me and Orson Welles, also starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes and Ben Chapin. He's tall and a little beefy, as Welles was during his Mercury...
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Orson Welles's ignominious decline has been well-documented, but he still fascinates and inspires like no other in film. Why? Because, he will never be bettered, writes David ThomsonYou can say he was a failure – but that only leads to a more demanding appreciation of success than numbers will ever satisfy (George Lucas, I read the other day, has a net worth of around $5bn). Orson Welles never directed a picture that made a profit in his...
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- Cult Film 'The Third Man' Starring Orson Welles Lives on in Vienna Tours (artknowledgenews.com)
Freestyle has debuted the official US trailer for Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles on Yahoo. It's a huge improvement over the first promo trailer we ran back in August. This is really a tough sell - they're trying to get the High School Musical fans interested in a film about a stage play while also enticing Richard Linklater fans and admirers of Orson Welles. That's an eclectic group of moviegoers that this is being sold to, but either...
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In the early 1970s the New Yorker magazine's legendary, fearsome film critic Pauline Kael set the cat among the pigeons when she claimed that Herman Mankiewicz, and not Orson Welles, deserved most of the credit for Citizen Kane. Kael was never afraid to take on cinema's sacred cows, and her withering review of David Lean's 1970 Irish epic Ryan's Daughter helped drive him away from film-making for over a decade.
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The trailer has finally arrived for Me and Orson Welles, the story of a student who happens to be picked from the crowd outside the Mercury Theatre by the young prodigy Orson Welles to star in his production of Julius Ceaser. The trailer stirs the emotion as it plays, helped along by that rousing score, and the actors look as though they really are delivering. It stars the lovely and talented Claire Danes, Zac Efron as the student, Christian...
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- New Me and Orson Welles Trailer Online (themovieblog.com)
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com'Me and Orson Welles' actor Christian McKay steals show on Day 1 of 2009 New ...The Times-Picayune - NOLA.comDirector Richard Linklater, right, reviews a scene with actors Zac Efron and Christian McKay on the set of 'Me and Orson Welles. ...and more »
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The Film Salon at Trinity-First continues its Orson Welles series with the 1948 film noir The Lady from Shanghai, at 7:30pm, Saturday, November 7.
Throughout his life, Orson Welles had trouble with money. Despite periods of great success in his early career, he never seemed to have enough cash for all his elaborate radio, theatre and film projects. In 1946, Welles was again short on funds - this time to finish his stage production of...
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