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Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

(3 stars)4 Dec 2009

(12A) 113min The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Nobody is greater testament to that than Orson Welles – broadcaster, actor and director who ended his days bloated, impoverished and doing voiceover work on…

The Stranger

The Stranger

(4 stars)16 Sep 2009

(PG) 91min (Optimum) That this 1946 noir was the only Orson Welles film to show profit on release and that it was the director’s least favourite picture might suggest an absence of his signature talent. But while Welles had been pressured into…

PlayList

PlayList

2 Apr 2009

In tune with the arrival of Nicolas Cage’s latest ‘I-can-see-the-future’ drama Knowing at our cinemas, this month’s PlayList offers to take you back to the future, or at least the retro-tinged visions of the future created to exploit the common…

The Stranger

The Stranger

(4 stars)8 May 2008

THRILLER (PG) 95min (Eureka) Having failed to turn a profit on either Citizen Kane or its follow-up The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles directed this relatively conventional film noir for RKO in 1946. In the process, he proved to the studio that…

Citizen Kane Oscar expected to fetch $1m

16 Oct 2007

The Oscar won by Orson Welles for Citizen Kane is expected to top a million dollars when it goes up for auction on 11 December. Auctioneer Sotheby’s claims the value placed on the statuette is greatly enhanced by the kudos which surrounds the 1941…

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