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Uh … 3 ½? — The Other Side of the Wind

December 24, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

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 — […]

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Double Feature: Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe…and…Me?

July 19, 2019by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

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 […]

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My 25 Favorite Long Takes

May 11, 2018by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

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 […]

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My Most Anticipated 2018 Movies

December 22, 2017by Paul Boyne 2 Comments

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 […]

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Double Feature: The Trial and Alphaville

April 21, 2017by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

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 […]

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before: There Was a Scorpion and a Frog…

September 9, 2016by Paul Boyne 1 Comment

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 […]

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Double Feature: The Magnificent Ambersons and The Royal Tenenbaums

August 19, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

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 […]

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Both Versions: Touch of Evil

June 3, 2016by Paul Boyne 3 Comments

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 […]

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Double Feature: Exit Through the Gift Shop and F for Fake

January 23, 2015by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

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 […]

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My Favorite Movies: Citizen Kane

August 29, 2014by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

“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 […]

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