Tag: Orson Welles

The Immortal Story (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

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…

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Moby Dick (1956) (Kino Release) (DVD)

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…

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James Clavell’s Shōgun (Blu-ray)

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…

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Blu-ray Review: Voyage of the Damned

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…

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Citizen Kane Coming to Blu-ray on September 13

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…

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Blu-ray Review: King of Kings

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…

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Trailer of the Day: Citizen Kane

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…

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