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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 …

Touch of Evil

Directed by Orson Welles

Celebrated as one of the greatest film noirs ever made, Welles’ mid-career morality tale sees him writing, directing, and starring …

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