The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles, 1947)

I've been meaning to watch The Lady from Shanghai  for YEARS, yet inexplicably it kept falling between the cracks. But I finally watched...

Brian De Palma: Get to Know Your Rabbit

For his first film to be made for a major film studio (Warner Bros.), Brian De Palma decided to make a film about financial security and the...

F for Fake

One might easily accuse Orson Welles, who said that F for Fake represented "a new kind of movie," of egoism, but only on the cond...

Touch of Evil

The most unfortunate aspect of any discussion of Orson Welles, the first great enfant terrible of cinema, is the tendency to highlight Well...

Chimes at Midnight

Orson Welles proved with his masterpieces Citizen Kane , The Magnificent Ambersons and Touch of Evil that he was not only an innovative an...