After nearly 50 years, Orson Welles’ long lost project “The Other Side of The Wind” will be finally released. The film, which has been described as a “satirical mockumentary” focuses on the end of Classic Hollywood and the emergence of the New Hollywood era and features an amazing cast of filmmakers […]
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Many years before I discovered such films as Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, Sanjuro and Yojimbo, the 1980 NBC TV epic based on James Clavell’s novel SHOGUN was my introduction to legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, the world of ancient Japanese culture and the samurai. Longtime fans of this classic 547 […]
On April 15th two furious film noir masterpieces will be released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment: A 70th Anniversary BR/UV Edition of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1948) and a Limited BR/UV Edition of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958) Synopsis: Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck star in the gripping film […]
Here’s another truly brilliant tracking shot that also features a couple like we saw in our GoodFellas post. This time the legendary Orson Welles was behind the camera making his grand comeback with a low budget crime picture that he proceeded to transform into one of the greatest film noirs […]
INTRODUCTION Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1915, Orson Welles was a childhood prodigy who had dazzled those who knew him with such things as Shakespeare puppet shows, paintings and poetry. He had even taken solo trips to far off lands when he was at the age most kids would be […]
Ever since first seeing Touch of Evil (1958) it has been one of my favorite films. It is often cited as one of the last examples of film noir but that statement is partially incorrect because the term, while largely associated with the 40s/50s hard boiled crime films is not […]