Orson Welles’s 1955 picture Mr. Arkadin, which turns 60 this year, rarely makes lists of classic Christmas movies. Sometimes called Confidential Report (the title it went by in England), Mr. Arkadin ...

Film historians at the Munich Film Museum used everything they could find to cobble together the "Comprehensive Version" of Mr. Arkadin. Just for fun, the three-disc set also comes with two other ...

More than 60 years after Citizen Kane carved a uniquely American cinema out of radio plays, magic shows, Brecht's Epic Theater, and comic strips, Orson Welles' life and work continues to re-jigger ...

The film: Of the many films over which Orson Welles lost directorial control - The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil among them - the loss of none, it's said, troubled ...

Whether Orson Welles’s “Mr. Arkadin” is a bad movie with great moments or a good movie with dire failings, it is, like much of Welles’s work, mangled, contentious, and undying. Hailed and mocked in ...

Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Orson Welles will forever be remembered for ...

Film historians and preservationists are still looking for the 45 minutes of footage RKO cut from Orson Welles’ 1942 film, “The Magnificent Ambersons,” but “Ambersons” wasn’t the only ambitious Welles ...

Poor kid, all she did was deliver a message. Don't try to pretend she wasn't in on it with you. She didn't even know what the name Sophia Bracco meant! is in Welles' potential identification with ...

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The minor flaws in all but one of Orson Welles' extraordinary films are particularly maddening because they are unnecessary. Since 1940, when Citizen Kane synthesized Horatio Alger and the "film noir" ...