Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in Journey Into Fear Cast : Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Everett Sloane, Rut...

Peter Bogdanovich and John Huston in The Other Side of the Wind Jake Hannaford : John Huston The Actress : Oja Kodar Brooks Otterlake ...

Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli in The Third Man Holly Martins : Joseph Cotten Anna Schmidt : Alida Valli Harry Lime : Orson Welles Maj...

Orson Welles and Alan Webb in Chimes at Midnight Falstaff : Orson Welles Prince Hal : Keith Baxter King Henry IV : John Gielgud Poins...

Orson Welles and Suzanne Cloutier in Othello I watched Orson Welles's film version of Shakespeare's  Othello  twice last night. ...

Like most of Orson Welles's Hollywood work, The Lady From Shanghai is the product of clashing wills: Welles's and the studio'...

So much has been written about the mishandling and mutilation of Orson Welles's second feature film that it's hard to see the Magn...

Welles may have taken the old theatrical superstition of referring to the play not by its title but as "the Scottish play" a lit...

Things I don't like about Citizen Kane : The "News on the March" montage . It's an efficient way of cluing the audien...

Michael Redgrave in Mr. Arkadin Gregory Arkadin : Orson Welles Guy Van Stratten : Robert Arden Mily : Patricia Medina Burgomil Treb...

There may be sensibilities more different from each other than those of an exiled Midwestern bon vivant and a consumptive Middle European ...

For a forthcoming review, I recently read the third volume of Simon Callow's projected four-volume biography of Orson Welles , in wh...