Orson Welles
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five separate stories are dramatized, woven out of a series of theoretical, island-hopping voyages that start en route to Hawaii, and after traversing the South Seas as far as Australia, end up flying back home from Honolulu. In between, through both an adventurous shipboard passenger, a returning American WWII veteran, and the enthused narration, we're taken island hopping to stops in places lush, tranquil, and inviting, like Tahiti, Tonga and Fiji,...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jack London's famous short is filmed with complete fidelity to London's graphic narrative and could be called a screen short story in its purest form. The stark realism of the chilling images combined with the power of Orson Welles' reading fills the viewer with an awesome admiration for the story's courageous hero. The visuals add a new dimension to London's prose and the viewer feels the icy cold to an extent that reaches far beyond the power of...
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1902.
Language
English
Description
THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema.. Edwin S. Porter and other early filmmakers used bizarre sets, fantastic costumes, and magic lantern tricks to illuminate their fantasy films. American parody supplied Douglas Fairbanks with enough unusual material to produce the truly surreal When the Clouds Roll By (1919). An expressionistic The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari...
7) American
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1940s, director Orson Welles navigates his meteoric Hollywood rise. As WWII begins, a Japanese American boy visits abroad, and an African American soldier enlists in the army. As the story heads towards 1947, each character follows their own ambitions in search of their American identity.
8) Mr. Arkadin
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The enigmatic Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles) is more complex than Charles Foster Kane, but equally as wealthy, though the source of his fortune is highly questionable. The Wellesian plot device is Guy Van Stratten, a penny ante cigarette smuggler who starts up a romance with Arkadin's daughter, Raina, in order to meet Arkadin. When Arkadin confronts Van Stratten with a dossier he has compiled on him to stop him from seeing his daughter, Van Stratten...
9) Genocide
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
GENOCIDE, an Academy Award winning documentary, takes a harrowing look at life during the Holocaust. Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor lend their voices to this heartbreaking historical account. **Academy Awards** Winner for Best Documentary, Features.
10) Magician
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A documentary examining the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Featuring interviews with other legendary directors such as Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese and Richard Linklater. Nominated for an Audience Choice Award at the **Chicago...
11) The stranger
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Having directed two undisputed masterpieces - Citizen Kane and The magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles delved into the suspense film, crafting a baroque postwar thriller that drew upon the style of his previous work, while laying the groundwork for his later film noir classics The lady from Shanghai and Touch of evil. Edward G. Robinson stars as Wilson, a government agent who tracks down a high-ranking Nazi officer (Welles) who has managed to craft...
12) The Third Man
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the failure of President Hoover's policies at the end of 1929, marked by the stock market crash on October 24, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the decade that began with the dream of endless progress and prosperity came to an end with millions unemployed. American industrial workers who had lost their jobs lined up in the streets for a bowl of soup and hunk of bread. Depression, new technology and foreclosure by the banks drove more than...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"In twelve fully dramatized episodes, the great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson. Orson Welles makes a special appearance as the nefarious Professor Moriarty"--Container.
15) F for fake
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Director Orson Welles examines the nature of truth and falsehood in this look at European art forger Elmyr de Hory and writer Clifford Irving, who wrote a biography of Howard Hughes based on a phony diary he fabricated himself.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the 18th century two sets of twins are mis-matched at birth only to be reunited on the eve of the French Revolution. The problem is that the twins are members of both the peasant and aristocratic classes. Their meeting, their mixup and the mistaken identities would ultimately constitute one of the most tumultuous events in modern history.
18) Catch-22
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
19) Casino Royale
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this ultimate, psychedelic, star-studded, secret-agent satire, British Intelligence is waning...in every possible way! When the diabolical SMERSH begins killing off Her Majesty's Secret Service, super-agent James Bond (David Niven) recruits six more "James Bonds" to confuse and conquer their enemies. But it won't be easy...they'll have to face an army of irresistibly sexy female operatives, exploding robotic fowl and germ that makes all women beautiful...but...
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