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Articles for Orson Welles

Book Review: ‘Dead Air’ tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Book Review: ‘Dead Air’ tells history of night Orson Welles unleashed fake Martian invasion

Associated Press  

Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn’t like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Wells’ “The War of the Worlds” is the focus of William Elliott Hazelgrove’s “Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America.” The book serves as an enjoyable history of the radio drama, with a …

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35 best movies to see before you die – from The Shining to Raiders of the Lost Ark
1 month, 3 weeks ago

35 best movies to see before you die – from The Shining to Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Independent  

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Why Pauline Kael’s fight over ‘Citizen Kane’ still matters, whichever side you’re on
9 months ago

Why Pauline Kael’s fight over ‘Citizen Kane’ still matters, whichever side you’re on

LA Times  

Did Orson Welles get too much glory for “Citizen Kane”? Read the full list “Orson Welles wasn’t around when ‘Citizen Kane’ was written,” Kael chided. “Cinema is the work of one single person,” Kael quotes Welles as boasting, adding that he’d also bragged of making an easy transition from theater to film, as “there was nothing about camerawork that any …

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'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds
1 year, 2 months ago

'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds

BBC  

'I had no idea I'd become a national event': Orson Welles on the mass hysteria of The War of the Worlds On 30 October 85 years ago, the population of the US was – according to Orson Welles – overwhelmed by mass panic, terrified by the all-too-real broadcast of his alien-invasion drama The War of the Worlds. It's an incident …

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Which ‘Macbeth’ is for you? Depends. How sparse or how bloody do you want it?
2 years, 10 months ago

Which ‘Macbeth’ is for you? Depends. How sparse or how bloody do you want it?

LA Times  

Clockwise from top left: Jon Finch and Francesca Annis in “Macbeth” ; Denzel Washington in “Tragedy of Macbeth” ; Orson Welles, in “Macbeth” ; Michael Fassbender in “Macbeth” ; Frances McDormand in “Tragedy of Macbeth” ; Toshiro Mifune in “Throne of Blood”. Joel Coen’s film adaptation of “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, arrives a mere …

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Mars, as seen from Earth: The red planet in pop culture
3 years, 8 months ago

Mars, as seen from Earth: The red planet in pop culture

Hindustan Times  

On Earth, at the moment, it feels like everything’s falling apart. Mars, as seen from Earth: The red planet in pop culture In Russia, Alexei Tolstoy’s 1923 novel Aelita was made into a film the following year. Mars, as seen from Earth: The red planet in pop culture In Russia, Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star imagines a communist society on Mars, …

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‘Mank’ brings just the latest in a long line of Orson Welles depictions
4 years ago

‘Mank’ brings just the latest in a long line of Orson Welles depictions

LA Times  

“I don’t want any description of me to be accurate,” Orson Welles told critic Kenneth Tynan in 1967. Vincent D’Onofrio plays Welles, and he looks the part; he even played Welles in a later short film, “Five Minutes, Mr. Welles.” In “Ed Wood,” however, D’Onofrio’s voice is dubbed by the sonorous voice actor Maurice LaMarche, who also did Welles duty …

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‘Mank’ movie review: A powerful chapter of a man who refused to budge
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Mank’ movie review: A powerful chapter of a man who refused to budge

The Hindu  

Herman J Mankiewicz aka Mank’s first encounter with William Randolph Hearst, the business mogul known for running an unprincipled press, pioneering in yellow journalism, and a politician who ran for President of the United States, on whose life Citizen Kane — often regarded by film historians as the greatest American film ever made — was loosely inspired from, says a …

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Mank movie review: David Fincher demolishes Hollywood mythmaking in delicious new Netflix film
4 years, 1 month ago

Mank movie review: David Fincher demolishes Hollywood mythmaking in delicious new Netflix film

Hindustan Times  

Mank Director - David Fincher Cast - Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Tom Burke, Charles Dance Mank movie review: Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in a still from David Fincher’s new Netflix film. But Mank, the movie, suggests that Mankiewicz was Citizen Kane’s sole writer. Tom Burke as Orson Welles in a still …

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Mank: The true story behind the characters of Netflix’s new film
4 years, 1 month ago

Mank: The true story behind the characters of Netflix’s new film

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The film tells the story of Herman Mankiewicz, the Hollywood screenwriter who was involved in …

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Mank, David Fincher’s Netflix biopic on Citizen Kane screenwriter, to release on 4 December
4 years, 3 months ago

Mank, David Fincher’s Netflix biopic on Citizen Kane screenwriter, to release on 4 December

Firstpost  

Mank will follow Henry Mankiewicz and his battles with Citizen Kane director and its star Orson Welles over screenplay credit for the 1941 cinematic masterpiece. Director David Fincher’s upcoming Herman J Mankiewicz biopic Mank will be released on Netflix on 4 December. The film centres around Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and his battles with director and …

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New in L.A. theater: Orson Welles’ ‘Moby Dick’ and the Odyssey’s ‘Loot’
5 years, 7 months ago

New in L.A. theater: Orson Welles’ ‘Moby Dick’ and the Odyssey’s ‘Loot’

LA Times  

This week’s offerings on the 99-Seat Beat, our weekly look at Southern California’s theater scene, leads with “Moby Dick — Rehearsed,” Orson Welles’ 1955 adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic novel, at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, the capacious outdoor space in Topanga. Elsewhere around L.A. you also catch Jason Robert Brown’s semiautobiographical two-person musical, “The Last Five Years,” which receives a …

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From Lust Stories to Roma, the top 10 online streaming movies of 2018
6 years ago

From Lust Stories to Roma, the top 10 online streaming movies of 2018

Hindustan Times  

2018 has been a pivotal year for movies both in India and abroad. Roma, Lust Stories and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before were three of the best streaming films of 2018. Through four short films, directed by four of the country’s most prominent Hindi filmmakers - Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar - Netflix’s Lust …

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