Orson Welles

Inte många filmer kan rätteligen göra anspråk på att vara världens genom tiderna bästa film, men de flesta brukar vara eniga om att det här är en av dem. Orson Welles tidlösa mästerverk är inte bara ett stycke nyskapande filmhistoria utan också storslagen underhållning en kompromisslös uppgörelse med den amerikanska drömmen genom den episka skildringen […]

Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In F for Fake, a free-form sort-of documentary by Orson Welles, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully reengages with the central preoccupation of his career: the tenuous lines between illusion and truth, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of the world- renowned art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally devious […]

Efter att ha skapat två av alla tiders bästa filmer, Citizen Kane och De magnifika Ambersons, regisserade Orson Welles thrillern Främlingen, och visade sig bemästra även denna genre till fulländning. Edward G. Robinson spelar en nazijägare på jakt efter den ökände Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), en av de högst ansvariga bakom folkmordet på judarna. Nu […]

Gloriously cinematic despite its tiny budget, Orson Welles’s Othello is a testament to the filmmaker’s stubborn willingness to pursue his vision to the ends of the earth. Unmatched in his passionate identification with Shakespeare’s imagination, Welles brings his inventive visual approach to this enduring tragedy of jealousy, bigotry, and rage, and also gives a towering […]

Orson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family. Adapted from an acclaimed Booth Tarkington novel and featuring restlessly inventive camera work and powerful performances from a cast including Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, and Agnes […]