Long considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Orson Welles seemed to prefer the complex and bizarre over the easy and formulaic. Though Welles was attracted to Hollywood and its trappings, his independent minded methods often clashed with…
Originally broadcast on French television and later released in theaters, The Immortal Story was Orson Welles’ first color film and his last completed fictional feature. An adaptation of a story by Out of Africa author Isak Dinesen, Welles cast himself…
An underrated work in John Huston’s filmography, Herman Melville’s massive novel Moby Dick is impossible to condense entirely as a film. However, Huston (with co-writer Ray Bradbury), managed to reduce the whole thing into two concise, yet exciting hours of…
Now largely relegated to cable, the mini-series was once a mainstay of American television. Beginning in 1976 with the success of Rich Man, Poor Man, and continuing with such classics as Roots and Jesus of Nazareth, mini-series became extremely popular…
At first glance, 1976’s Voyage of the Damned must have struck perspective audiences as yet another disaster flick with an all star cast; the kind Irwin Allen, producer of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) had made…
Press Release: Burbank, Calif., June 13, 2011 — Citizen Kane, Orson Welles´ tour de force which the American Film Institute (AFI) chose as the #1 film of all time1, celebrates its 70th Anniversary with an all new 1080p hi-definition restoration…
Warner Bros. | 1961 | 168 mins. | PG-13 The second of producer Samuel Bronston’s big-gauge roadshow epics filmed in Spain, King of Kings (1961) is a tasteful rendering of the Christ story and was MGM’s follow-up to their phenomenally…
In my opinion, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films ever made. Along with a great film, Welles also devised a great trailer; it’s one in which he never shows a frame of the actual film, nor…