The Trial
For far too long Orson Welles’ masterpiece The Trial (1962) was only available on home video in the U.S. in shoddy editions. The Trial was in desperate need of a… Read more »
Tag: Orson Welles
Tomorrow Is Forever
`Woman, disturb me not now at the last,But let me hold my purpose till I die.Sit down again; mark me and understand,While I have power to speak. I charge you now,When… Read more »
Touch Of Evil
Orson Welles presents himself as an interesting phenomenon of studio era Hollywood. His aggressive and independent methods as a filmmaker are what both brought him his early success and later… Read more »
Orson Welles’ Macbeth
“My purpose in making Macbeth was not to make a great film – and this is unusual, because I think that every film director, even when he is making nonsense,… Read more »
Reconstructed In Stillness
“I read, some days past, that the man who ordered the erection of the almost infinite wall of China was that first Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who also decreed that… Read more »
Ten Days’ Wonder
Claude Chabrol’s film Ten Days’ Wonder (1971) is about a young man named Charles (Anthony Perkins), his domineering father Theo (Orson Welles) and their romantic involvement with Helene (Marlene Jobert)…. Read more »
It’s All True
So much has been written on the films of Orson Welles, finished and unfinished, that it hardly seems necessary to contribute to that discussion at all. But having revisited It’s… Read more »
