In 1937, Orson Welles had a strange run-in with Ernest Hemingway. The future director of “Citizen Kane,” who was then twenty-two, was recording voice-over for the documentary “The Spanish Earth,” a ...
Director Orson Welles’ latest movie hits theaters Friday — 33 years after he died. “The Other Side of the Wind,” the famed filmmaker’s final picture, has been in post-production for nearly 50 years, ...
Orson Welles directs a scene from The Other Side of the Wind. To his left are Peter Bogdanovich and Welles's long-term partner, Oja Kodar. On Labor Day weekend, the American independent film industry ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cousins soon gets to the memorable flirtation scene between publishing tycoon Kane (played by Welles) and working-class singer ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the biggest news for Welles in 2020 was surely the 40th anniversary of the drunken outtakes from a Paul Masson champagne ...
In 1946, Orson Welles, the director of "Citizen Kane," was at the height of his fame. At the time, he had a national radio show airing on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF RADIO SHOW, "ORSON WELLES COMMENTARIES") ...
Orson Welles shared his brutally honest opinion about Alfred Hitchcock's iconic thriller ‘Rear Window.’ Today, ‘Rear Window’ ...
Any discussion about the genius of Orson Welles' career inevitably turns to his complete mastery of the camera. He insisted on his films being truly cutting edge in his use of angles and deep focus, ...
One of the greatest American directors of the 20th century is known for only a few films. After Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane in 1941, he fought bitterly with the studios that ...
A new book makes the case that the late Orson Welles' talents extended far beyond radio, theater and filmmaking. Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches and Drawings from the Welles Estate offers a trove of ...
Hollywood has a peculiar neurosis on the subject of Orson Welles. Once or twice a decade, the industry attempts to conjure his flamboyant, chaotic personality onscreen, with results that have ranged ...
The only surviving copy of Orson Welles’ 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought irrecoverably lost after a fire devastated Welles’ home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George ...