In Brief — New (and Not So New) Noir Novels
Got a great little gang of new noir (or at least noirish) novels from Picador last week. These handsome trade paperbacks are all available April 27, 2010. Full reviews all around forthcoming, but until...
View Article“He Is a Gloriously Life-affirming Good Man”— Orson Welles on Falstaff
Tagged: Falstaff, Orson Welles, Shakespeare
View ArticleOrson Welles on Charlie Chaplin (1960 Interview)
Orson Welles talks about acting and directing in a 1960 interview in Paris. The interviewer steers the conversation to Charlie Chaplin, who bought Orson Welles’s idea for the film Monsieur Verdoux—and...
View Article1937 Orson Welles Screen Test (No, He Did Not Get the Part)
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View Article“I Think I Could Make a Picture Better Than That, But I Haven’t Been Given a...
Tagged: Citizen Kane, Orson Welles
View ArticleMartin Scorsese on Citizen Kane
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View Article“They Told Me I Was Everything”— Orson Welles Plays King Lear
Tagged: Drama, King Lear, Orson Welles, Shakespeare
View ArticleRIP Andrew Sarris
RIP film critic Andrew Sarris, 1928-2012. Sarris wrote film criticism—meaningful, real writing, not just film “reviews”—for half a century, publishing several books, and writing regularly for first...
View ArticleThe Lady from Shanghai — Orson Welles
Tagged: Film, full film, Noir, Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai
View ArticleThe Stranger — Orson Welles (Full Film)
Tagged: Art, Auschwitz, Film, Holocaust film, Nazi, Orson Welles, The Stranger, war criminal
View ArticleOrson Welles as Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (Full Film)
Tagged: Art, Chimes at Midnight, Film, Henry IV, Orson Welles, Shakespeare
View ArticleI Didn’t Like Joshua Cody’s Memoir [sic]
Joshua Cody’s memoir [sic] showed up at Biblioklept World Headquarters a few weeks ago and despite my prejudices, I coasted through it over a few afternoons. Those prejudices: 1) It’s a memoir. 2)...
View ArticleOrson Welles Talks About Making Fun of Ernest Hemingway
Tagged: Books, Ernest Hemingway, Film, Orson Welles
View ArticleF for Fake — Orson Welles (Full Film)
Tagged: April Fools, Art forgery, Citizen Kane, Clifford Irving, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, Forgery, full film, Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Welles
View ArticleKing Lear, Directed by Peter Brook and Starring Orson Welles
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View ArticleThe Orson Welles Story (BBC Documentary)
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View ArticleOrson Welles and Peter O’Toole on Hamlet
Tagged: Hamlet, Orson Welles, Peter O'Toole, William Shakespeare
View ArticleThe Orson Welles Show (Unaired Pilot)
Tagged: Angie Dickinson, Burt Reynolds, Frank Oz, Gary Graver, Jim Henson, Orson Welles, Stanley Sheff, Welles
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