Movies: Orson Welles

Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distin...

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The film recalls Orson Welles’ Italian period. “Rosabella” is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of “Rosebud,” the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles’ de...

Humans have disappeared, only a few remain who try to hide so as not to disappear like the rest. What do these strange beings hide? Why do they love us? What's its purpose?...

The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising young actor and finally in later years as a washed up icon of the silver screen....

Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists in fluent French about his career and his conception of life....

“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victim...

Embers and Dust focuses on the perspective of a young farm boy and his family, and how the night of Orson Welles' dramatic broadcast of War of The Worlds unfolded for them....

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Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946....

The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska....

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As Orson Welles, I might say: Art is the grand illusion, a mirror reflecting the complexities of the human soul. It's a symphony of ideas, emotions, and truths, played on the canvas of our shared humanity....

Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documentary....

Explores the history of the woolen textile industry from earliest times until the present day....

A haunting visual adaptation of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre radio performance. We are introduced to Ronald Adams: a man who, during a cross country trip, is slowly driven to madness....

Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory, paranormal encounter and cryptozoological sighting in history. (Also Jesus. No, really.)...

Orson Welles reads the poem especially for this film by Larry Jordan, which is dedicated to the late Wallace Berman, and is made possible by a grant from The National Endowment Of The Arts....

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Short vignettes explore different facets of human behavior and social issues....