Orson Welles
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
3) 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.
6) The trial
Series
Criterion collection volume 1191
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A feverishly inspired take on Franz Kafka's novel, Orson Welles₂s film casts Anthony Perkins as the bewildered office drone Josef K., whose arrest for an unspecified crime plunges him into a menacing bureaucratic labyrinth of guilt, corruption, and paranoia. Exiled from Hollywood and creatively unchained, Welles poured his ire at the studio system, McCarthyism, and all forms of totalitarian oppression into this cinematic statement, one of his boldest...
7) Compulsion
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based very closely on the 1924 Chicago murder case of Loeb-Leopold, in which two wealthy law-school students who thought that they had commited the perfect crime are on trial for murder.
9) Othello
Series
Criterion collection volume 870
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
10) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.
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