Uh … 3 ½? — The Other Side of the Wind
The Introduction Now that we have it, what do we do with it? Thirteen months ago, The Other Side of the Wind was released to the public, just like that — […]
The Introduction Now that we have it, what do we do with it? Thirteen months ago, The Other Side of the Wind was released to the public, just like that — […]
It’s almost immaterial that one of these films is derived from a novel and the other from a memoir. An experiment: Watch Me and Orson Welles and My Week with Marilyn back-to-back […]
As quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles once said, “A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys.” In other words, the film director who can […]
My seventh year of blogging rolls along to its conclusion, and I’ve already broken my previous record for current-year movies viewed. (My total as of this writing is 69 movies […]
Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard presented their visions of sclerotic authoritarianism just a few years apart, with the American director entering the final phase of his filmmaking career and the […]
The coolest thing I’ve learned this year to date comes from One-Man Band, the third volume of Simon Callow’s definitive Orson Welles biography. I finished reading it back in June, but […]
It might be difficult to see how a film by Orson Welles and a film by Wes Anderson could be meaningfully paired. Stylistically and tonally, they’re worlds apart; no one […]
Briefly: The troubled history of Orson Welles in Hollywood came to an end during post-production on Touch of Evil. After shooting completed and Welles left town, Universal ordered re-shoots, without the […]
The ordinary rules don’t apply here. Pulling this double feature on an unsuspecting audience — people with no prior experience of the French New Wave, or essay films, or mockumentaries […]
“Everything you hate.” There are so many avenues for writing about this film that it’s easy to become paralyzed trying to choose one. Its reputation precedes it, to put things […]