Director: Orson Welles
Chimes at Midnight AKA Fallstaff
Directed by Orson Welles
His third “finished” Shakespeare adaptation, Chimes at Midnight, sees Welles dulling his edges a bit in offering up a highly …
Citizen Kane
Directed by Orson Welles
Routinely voted—by critics, scholars, and filmmakers—as one of the best films ever made, Citizen Kane is many things at once: …
Confidential Report AKA Mr. Aradkin
Directed by Orson Welles
Bearing key similarities to The Third Man, Welles’ noir concerns small-time smuggler Guy Van Stratten (Robert Arden), who overhears a …
F for Fake
Directed by Orson Welles
F for Fake, a pseudo-documentary revolving around the shadowy world of art forgery, sees Welles at his most globe-trotting and …
Journey Into Fear
Directed by Orson Welles
Packed to the gills with his Mercury Theatre players, Journey into Fear is a Welles product through-and-through (though it was …
Macbeth
Directed by Orson Welles
Welles’ passion project was made at the scrappy Republic Pictures on discarded lots previously used for Roy Rogers Westerns. At …
Othello
Directed by Orson Welles
Among Welles’ finished films, Othello has one of the most troubled production histories. Financed largely out-of-pocket and shot intermittently over …
The Immortal Story
Directed by Orson Welles
Welles’ first color film—significant considering the development of scores of color processes since the 1920s—tells the story of Clay (Welles), …
The Lady From Shanghai
Directed by Orson Welles
Here writer/director Welles smolders alongside bombshell Rita Hayworth (Welles’ second wife) in a wildly stylish film noir that was years …
The Magnificent Ambersons
Directed by Orson Welles
Following the success of Citizen Kane, Welles embarked upon one of the most famously disastrous productions of the 1940s. The …
The Stranger
Directed by Orson Welles
Welles’ post-war thriller tackles Nazism head-on as UN War Crimes Inspector Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) searches for Welles’ fugitive Franz …
The Trial
Directed by Orson Welles
Welles translates one of Franz Kafka’s best-known literary works into a disorienting black-and-white cinematic world of crime and punishment. After …