Orson Welles played nearly all the roles. From director to writer to leading actor, Welles was an innovative creator whose keystone production, Citizen Kane, effectively changed the course of ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Orson Welles is a renowned filmmaker, but he was unimpressed with another iconic director and one of his most acclaimed works - Rear Window. Welles cemented himself as a Hollywood legend when he wrote ...

Nearly 40 years after his death, Orson Welles is back — as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit. Storyrabbit, from podcast company Treefort Media, inked a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few paragraphs on Orson Welles’ 1962 adaptation of “The Trial” can suggest only so much of the film’s special visual effect — not effects, plural, but a single, singular two-hour experience, as ...

Some Spanish audiences thought clever ads for the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day were news reports of an actual alien ...

“I don’t want any description of me to be accurate,” Orson Welles told critic Kenneth Tynan in 1967. “I want it to be flattering.” It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric. And ...

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, ...