Orson Welles

What Makes Rubens Great?

Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Modernity, Prometheus, Peter Paul Rubens, Orson Welles, The Trial, Franz Kafka, Daniel in the Lions' Den, Arts News

Q: What makes Flemish painter, diplomat, and scholar Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) great? A: lots of things. Today, I'd like to compare two of his pai...

Read Post

When A Composer Loves Another Composer

Daron Hagen | Posted 05.14.2012

Marc Blitzstein's musical DNA -- strict adherence to economy of means, a passion for combining words and music, the belief that music can promote social justice, an abhorrence of pretension -- are woven inextricably into the music I compose.

Read Post

LISTEN: Celebrities Behave Badly In Leaked Recordings

Adult Swim | Posted 04.18.2012

Professional entertainers crack sometimes -- and sometimes the results are caught on tape. Even Larry King, not exactly known for "cutting loose," ...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: The 20 Most Innovative Animated Films

Posted 12.30.2011

Animation has long experienced the stigma that it is a medium designed for children, yet examples can be seen that defy this classification. Many ...

Read Whole Story

Legendary Oscar Sells For HUGE Cash

AP | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Citizen Kane Oscar, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Oscar Auction, Orson Welles Citizen Kane Oscar, Orson Welles Oscar, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Citizen Kane, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — The Academy Award statuette that Orson Welles won for the original screenplay of "Citizen Kane" was auctioned for more than $861,0...

Read Whole Story

How Much Would You Pay For Orson Welles' Only Oscar?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Kevin Spacey, Academy Awards, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Beatrice Welles, Greatest Films of All Time, Best Screenplay, Oscars, David Copperfield, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles Awards, Culture News

At 25 years old, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in "Citizen Kane," which was inspired by the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph ...

Read Whole Story

The Greatest Hoaxes of All Time (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: The Beatles, Greatest Hoaxes, Orson Welles, Balloon Boy, Greatest Hoaxes of All Time, Bslide-Sony-Pictures2, Aliens, Bslide-Sony-Pictures, Entertainment News

Hoaxes, urban legends and rumors have been prevalent in society since the early days of man. They can be seen at the office, at home, at school and, m...

Read Whole Story

Stage Door: Man and Boy, Orson's Shadow

Fern Siegel | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Laurence Olivier, Frank Langella, Entertainment, Orson Welles, Theater, Broadway, Hollywood, Off-Broadway, Terrence Rattigan, Vivien Leigh, Arts News

Corruption and greed resonate in every age. Though Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy was written in 1963, it seems ripped from today's headlines.

Read Post

Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith

John Farr | Posted 12.09.2011

In the final analysis, religion is what we humans have made of it, good and bad. Perhaps that's what makes it such a fascinating subject for film. Here then are my candidates for the top ten films dealing with faith and spirituality.

Read Post

A Letter From Orson Welles' High School Teacher Calls Him 'Genius'

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Orson Welles Roger Hill, Young Orson Welles, Video, Orson Welles, Orson Welles High School, Orson Welles High School Teacher, Roger Hill, Orson Welles Genius, Culture News

It's one thing to call Orson Welles a genius after the fact, but Welles' high school teacher Roger Hill was sensitive enough to spot the signs early o...

Read Whole Story

10 Black & White Movies for People Who Won't Watch Black & White Movies

John Farr | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Fred MacMurray, ?the Best Years of Our Lives?, The Grapes of Wrath, Academy Awards, Harper Lee, All About Eve, Fredric March, The Apartment, Best Movies by Farr, Rod Steiger, Citizen Kane, Walter Huston, Robert Duvall, Pulitzer Prize, Marilyn Monroe, Black and White, Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Lemmon, Duck Soup, Gregory Peck, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, American Film Institute, Humphrey Bogart, John Steinbeck, Movie Recommendations, Orson Welles, Movie Suggestions, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies, Casablanca, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda, John Huston, Schindler's List, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Lumet, 12 Angry Men, William Wyler, The Marx Brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Myrna Loy, Marlon Brando, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bette Davis, Culture News

If I could get all those black and white haters out there to watch just ten titles -- movies that constituted absolutely essential viewing -- which would they be?

Read Post

Not All Auteurs Are Dictators: Or, Apple Is Steven Spielberg, and Google Is Robert Altman

David Galenson | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Clint Eastwood, Jean-Luc Godard, Apple, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Google, Culture News

In film there are two very different types of auteur. Both types produce distinctive bodies of work, and both can reach the highest levels of creativity.

Read Post

Finally, the Real Jane Eyre Stands Up

Stephanie Green | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre Review, Mia Wasikowska, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Orson Welles, Rochester, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

As a stridently confident Bronte fan, I can say without equivocation that our dear friend Charlotte would be most pleased with the new Jane Eyre, starring Mia Wasikowska.

Read Post

Thoughts on The King's Speech, and Other Royal Entries

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Academy Awards, Fred Zinnemann, Charles Laughton, Susannah York, Robert-Donat, Anthony Hopkins, Orson Welles, Peter O'Toole, Billy Connolly, Judi Dench, Katharine Hepburn, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Henry VIII, Michael Sheen, Laurence Olivier, The King's Speech, Robert Shaw, Paul Scofield, Great Britain, A Man for All Seasons, Kenneth Branagh, British Royalty, Richard Burton, Colin Firth, Henry V, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth the King's Speech, The Oscars, Entertainment News

Notwithstanding Colin Firth's astonishing performance, the film's genius lies in its being decidedly old-fashioned. Here is a sampling of my favorite titles which concern the venerable throne of England.

Read Post

The Genius Of G.K. Chesterton: Understanding The Heart Of The Enduring Story

Kevin Belmonte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chesterton, h.g. Wells, Charles Dickens, Orson Welles, T.S. Eliot, c.s. Lewis, The Man Who Was Thursday, Ernest Hemingway, Jane Austen, G.K. Chesterton, John Updike, Religion News

So what were Shaw and Hemmingway on about? Who was this writer of genius and great good humor? In the world of letters, or within the convivial setting of a tavern, he was an undeniable presence.

Read Post

Transgender Artists Help Make Transformative Art

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Jack Byrne, Hemaphrodite, Lgbt, Rebecca Swan, Felicity Huffman, Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, Rita Hayworth, Transamerica, Maria Callas, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Kirsty MacDonald, Nelson Mandela, Zackie Achmat, Maori, Frederic Delius, Ema Lyon, National Film Board of Thailand, Gertrude Stein, David Wall, Simon Knoli, Assume Nothing, Robert Mapplethorpe, Prodigal Sons, Fig Trees, Four Saints in Three Acts, Drag King, Orson Welles, Drag Queen, Fennimore and Gerda, Tim McCaskell, Virgil Thomsen, John Greyson, Shigeyuki Kihara, Die Tote Stadt, Insects in the Back Yard, Gugu Diamini, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Peter Sellars, New York City Opera, Transgender, AIDS Activism, Mani Bruce Mitchell, Kimberly Reed, St. Theresa of Avila, Oja Kodar, Stephen Lewis, Arts News

Read Post

Dick Cavett: Get This Man a Show!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Snooki, New Yorker, Dick Cavett, Norman Mailer, Lester Maddox, John Lennon, Janet Flanner, Orson Welles, Yoko Ono, Groucho Marx, Gore Vidal, Timothy Leary, Jack Paar, Entertainment News

Dick Cavett does his homework. He's a witty conversationalist. His writing is as sharp, witty and engaging as his talk show hosting was. All this begs the question: Why is this man not currently hosting a TV show?

Read Post

HuffPost Review: Inspector Bellamy

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inspector Bellamy Movie Review, Marlon Brando, Adrien Brody, Claude Chabrol, Gerard Depardieu, Orson Welles, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Owen Wilson, Entertainment News

Who better to play a delicate bull than Depardieu? In middle age, he is approaching the girth of late-life Brando or Welles; yet he's lost none of his vitality.

Read Post

Movie review: The Social Network

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

The Social Network satisfies in ways great and small, as it tells a small story with big implications.

Read Post

Brush up Your Shakespeare! (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Romeo and Juliet, Undead, Hamlet, The Tempest, Mafia, Julius Caesar, Shylock, Othello, Kiss Me Kate, The Boys From Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors, West Side Story, The Merchant of Venice, 10 Things I Hate About You, King Lear, Jew, The Dresser, Romeo Must Die, Albert Finney, Klingon, Orson Welles, A Midsummer Night?S Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Slings and Arrows, Cole Porter, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare, Were the World Mine, The Taming of the Shrew, Falstaff, Rosencrantz, Burbage, Guildenstern, Elderhostel, Iago, Arts News

Shakespeare's plays have been the stuff of inspiration for playwrights, composers, and film directors. Here are a few of the best and worst attempts to re-imagine the Bard.

Read Post

Martians? Ho Hum.

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aliens, Canals on Mars, Mars, Lowell, SETI Institute, War of the Worlds, Orson Welles, Martians, Technology News

Read Post

A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

It is exceedingly strange and more than a little sad that actresses Olivia de Havilland, 94, and her sister Joan Fontaine, 93, have been estranged for many years, the result of an intense sibling rivalry which has never dissipated.

Read Post

Banksy v Welles

Alexandra Juhasz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Documentary, Media Criticism, Film, Orson Welles, Banksy, Media News

I liked Exit Through the Gift Shop well enough.

Read Post

Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud, Part 2

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Right Wing Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Right Wing Media, Lee Atwater, Social Security, Glenn Beck Obama, Orson Welles, Red Scare, Glenn Beck Fox News, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Conservatism, Mccarthyism, Southern Strategy, Joe Mccarthy, Fox News Channel, Republicans, Media News

Beck owes it to his audience to "step out of character" and admit, on his show, that he's staging an elaborate hoax. His hero Orson Welles did it, and so can he.

Read Post

Martians in New Jersey: Remembering the War of the Worlds

Michael Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aliens, Hysteria, Anniversary, Hoax, Fake-News, War, Panic, Radio, Great Depression, Halloween, Orson Welles, New Jersey, New York News

Orson Welles was a talented director, and, at the age of 22, a very naughty boy.

Read Post