We’ll never actually see Orson Welles’ final film The Other Side of the Wind, no more than we’ll ever actually see Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) or Touch of Evil (1958). But whereas the latter two were taken out of…
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead Movie Review | NYFF 2018
During the post-screening panel following the New York Film Festival premiere of his new film They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, award-winning documentarian Morgan Neville revealed that of all the artists, political figures, and cultural personalities he’d examined, it was…
Orson Welles in the 21st Century
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 aesthetics. Cinematic storytelling was not progressing. Directors…
Orson Welles 100th Birthday: Greatest Works
In honor of Orson Welles’ 100 Birthday, the TYF staff takes a look back at some of Welles’ greatest works and performances.
Out of the Past: “Touch of Evil” (1958)
Orson Welles was not long for Hollywood. Every attempt he made at resurrecting his career was masterful, but ultimately rejected by the studio and audiences alike. Like Jay Gatsby, Welles futilely tried to achieve the unachievable: a return to the…
Out of Past: “The Lady from Shanghai” (1948)
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 (next week will be Touch…
The Film Canon: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
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 megalomaniac was based on, and Welles himself, that sensational wunderkind whose talents…