Citizen Kane

...how to play Welles-that his performance is clearly modeled on Welles's own as the young Charles Foster Kane actually enriches Citizen Kane in retrospect. Me and Orson Welles doesn't lack for vivid turns-including Danes's ambitious college...

In this article: Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, Me and Orson Welles, Julius Caesar, Zac Efron, John Houseman, Popular front, Deflation, and Mercury Theatre

...on the radio than the one his "The Shadow" scriptwriters wrote. He blurts out "I'm starving," just the way Welles did in "Citizen Kane," and charms charms charms. Equally fine are actors playing other members of Welles' Mercury...

In this article: Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, Me and Orson Welles, Mercury Theater, Julius Caesar, George Coulouris, Ben Chaplin, and Eddie Marsan

...in efficacy of delivery I'm not one of those critics who ranks Citizen Kane in his all-time Top Ten list, partly because its view of big business and the corrupting effect of power and wealth is so conventional. Ultimately, it would have...

In this article: William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles

...Mankiewicz's contribution. Pauline Kael wanted Herman Mankiewicz to be given due credit as one of the great creative forces of the 1930s and 1940s, and used the Holy Grail of Citizen Kane to make her case. Among those principally outraged...

In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth

"He's such a broken man. He keeps asking `Why can't I get past Citizen Kane?' and his great despair is that `I want to make Chimes at Midnight and everyone wants to know what it's like to f--k Rita Hayworth.'" You can hear Ross's own...

In this article: Orson Welles, Me and Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Toronto, Orson's Shadow, Simon Callow, and Kenneth Tynan