Film noir is defined by its dark themes, but the endings of these 10 classics of the genre were shockingly bleak even by the ...

Citizen Kane made Orson Welles a superstar. But his next movie, The Magnificent Ambersons, was edited into incoherence by the studio. Now, a Welles fan has used animation to recreate lost footage.

In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, still regarded by many critics as the greatest movie of all time. He was 26 years old. For such a remarkable beginning ...

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Orson Welles gave his best ever performance in The Third Man, which is a far more entertaining and compelling film than his more famous movie, Citizen Kane.

One of the greatest American directors of the 20th century is known for only a few films. After Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane in 1941, he fought bitterly with the studios that ...

A replacement Oscar given to estate of the late Orson Welles in 1988 for his "lost" Citizen Kane Screenwriting award sold for $645,000 but is it legal. Skip to main content.

While Welles’s theater days have been the subject of biopics before, with films like “Cradle Will Rock” and “Me and Orson Welles” dramatizing his imaginative stagings, the new film ...

The bravura opening shot of Orson Welles‘ “Touch of Evil” — in which the camera begins on a close-up of a ticking bomb and then pulls back to present the bomb’s journey to detonation via ...

The drama critics who attended the opening of young Orson Welles’ revival of “Heartbreak House” last spring were practically unanimous in acclaiming it as a perfectly timed production. Shaw ...

A few paragraphs on Orson Welles’ 1962 adaptation of “The Trial” can suggest only so much of the film’s special visual effect — not effects, plural, but a single, singular two-hour ...