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Orson Welles in the 21st Century
Paul Gilbert May 6, 2015

By the end of the Great Depression, cinema was at a standstill, sound made the movies into talkies and the invention of Technicolor transported Dorothy into Oz. But sound and color were only aesthetic…

Paul Gilbert May 6, 2015
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Orson Welles 100th Birthday: Greatest Works
TYF Staff May 6, 2015

In honor of Orson Welles’ 100 Birthday, the TYF staff takes a look back at some of Welles’ greatest works and performances.…

TYF Staff May 6, 2015
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Out of Past: “The Lady from Shanghai” (1948)
Paul Gilbert April 28, 2015

Next week is Orson Welles’ birthday centennial (May 6th) and this website is going to be chock full of Welles tributes. But, let’s start the party early with his 1948 noir The Lady from Shanghai…

Paul Gilbert April 28, 2015
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The Film Canon: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Nathanael Hood April 10, 2015

It is impossible to discuss Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) without examining the film’s two central figures: William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper magnate that the film’s central megaloma…

Nathanael Hood April 10, 2015
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The Film Canon: Do the Right Thing (1989)
Maxwell Zupke November 26, 2012

It’s sweltering. Radio DJ Mister Señor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson) is proclaiming it to be one of the hottest days of the summer. It’s too hot to work, but Mookie (Spike Lee) makes his …

Maxwell Zupke November 26, 2012
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Maxwell Zupke September 11, 2012

Every few weeks, an article entitled “Death of the Cinema” or “Death of Film Criticism” materializes on some film blog. “The cinema is dying! Young people don’t go …

Maxwell Zupke September 11, 2012
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