Orson Welles

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• Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of The VHS Box

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 497
  At the annual BookExpo event in New York City last June, Fantagraphics Books had some of the most original and desirable soon-to-be-released titles in their Fall 2009 catalog but few seemed to attract the buzz of this inspired creation with its oversized VHS box design complete with slipcase and fetishised detail, ...
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• Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes

  
  Living Las Vegas — Authority: 431
  Its a Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century and its lots of fun. [ Read more ]
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• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 131
  This Christmas, how about taking a wider view of things? This animated tour of the known universe will help broaden your perspective. The renowned poet Jimmy Santiago Baca has written a novel. He talks about it here . James Frey vs. Oprah Winfrey! Dale Peck vs. Rick Moody! This list of the decade’s top ten ...
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• Movie Review: Me and Orson Welles

  
  Living Las Vegas — Authority: 431
  Heres a film about art and genius in the 1930s that everyone can love today. [ Read more ]
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• List: U.S. Films of 2009

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 497
  My lists for the top films of the year and of the decade have been posted over at Indiewire, so feel free to rush over there and criticize my choices in the comments back here. Only two English language films made my year-end roundup (The Informant! and Orphan), but there was a whole slew of [...]
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• Nominations and Awards Update: An Education Leads with 7 London Film Critics Noms

  
  Pride & Prejudice (2005) Blog — Authority: 135
  The British coming-of-age film An Education scored a leading seven nominations for the London Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday, with the group also announcing a special honour for American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The 30th Awards will take place on February 18, 2010 at the Landmark Hotel, ...
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• On Earth, Peace and Goodwill to all Men

  
  skineart.com — Authority: 156
  On Earth, Peace and Goodwill to all Men - Charcoal and Inktense in a plain Moleskine Sketchbook Ruing the commercialism of the season, my thoughts strayed back to my childhood and the magic of Christmas. I recalled the expectant excitement leading up the day, carol singing, school parties, visits from relatives ...
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• Citizen Kane (1941) – The Daily Movie Wallpaper – The Mystery of Rosebud

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 473
    The Daily Movie Wallpaper Tuesday, December 22, 2009   Here we see a young Charles Foster Kane given a replacement sled named “ The Crusader ” where a terse, “ Merry Christmas ” is exchanged. This moment although incredibly brief offers a key piece of the puzzle in helping to unravel one of the ...
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• Ep. 109 – A Christmas Without Snow part 3

  
  Movies For the Blind — Authority: 106
  When the choir member who damaged the pipe organ confesses, other members work to restore the organ in time for the Messiah, but another emergency might cancel the performance anyway. Part 3 of 3. Click here to subscribe Click here to download directly from Blind File Sharing Different file sizes/formats ...
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• “I Always Have To Be Bigger Than Life. It’s a Fault in My Nature.”

  
  TCM's Classic Movie Blog — Authority: 497
  A friend and I have been mulling over cinematic portrayals of real-life historical figures, stars, and celebrities. We’re not particularly interested in historical or biographical accuracy but in which famous figures are most often depicted in the movies and by whom. Just as I was thinking about how to turn this ...
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• The Mel Brooks Collection – Blu-ray Review

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 144
  There are few that would deny the comic genius of Mel Brooks. And while he does have impeccable comic timing and definitely knows what’s funny, I think the thing Brooks was best at was picking the perfect cast. In each and every one of these films, the best person was picked for each part. There isn’t a bad ...
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• Zac Efron Versus Orson Welles

  
  Poptimal.com — Authority: 486
  A couple of weeks ago I had covered what turned out to be a brief interview session with the cast (Zac Efron, Claire Danes) and director ( Richard Linklater )of the movie Me and Orson Welles .  I talked with the group about how they would like their career to be remembered and, more importantly, how they would ...
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• 4th & Short: 12/20/09

  
  Punch Drunk Critics — Authority: 140
  The east coast has been pounded by a sheet of snow, and yours truly has spent the bulk of today doing nothing but shovelling. Fortunately the white stuff was nice enough to wait until I got a chance to check out Avatar before it decided to grind VA life to a standstill. With my satellite on the fritz, Ill be relegated ...
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• 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Orson Welles and ?

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 740
  "Who is the new Orson Welles?" someone asked me after a recent screening of Richard Linklaters Me and Orson Welles (64 screens). Certainly Christian McKay does a superb Welles in that movie, and if anyone wanted to have an Orson Welles-style narrator on a documentary, or a Moby Dick-style cameo in a feature ...
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• 60th Anniversary: The Third Man

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 131
  This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of zither-mania. While that might be a slight overstatement, Anton Karas’s zither theme became an unlikely international hit after the release of Carol Reed’s The Third Man (trailer here ) , which is currently enjoying a special anniversary revival run at Film Forum ...
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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
  A Piece of Monologue: The Online Journal of Rhys Tranter — Authority: 125
  Dan OBannon 1946-2009 Image: The theatrical poster for Ridley Scotts Alien (1979) Literature: Samuel Beckett :   HTML Giant on A Return to Beckett Will Self :  The New Yorker reviews Liver Will Self : Upcoming January 2010 lecture on W. G. Sebald George Steiner : Maya Jaggi interview with ...
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• Are Video Games Art?

  
  BeefJack - The Gamer's Sauce. — Authority: 452
  Right off the bat, I’ll say that in any form, I do believe that games are art.  From the time it takes to make a game, to the programming, to the final product, a lot of the same energy that’s put into traditional art is also put into making a game.I’ll also go a step [...]
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• Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair

  
  Captain Cook — Authority: 439
  Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair: Betacam lives on to this day in the world...
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• A Swell Welles Period Piece

  
  film babble blog — Authority: 117
  ME AND ORSON WELLES (Dir. Richard Linklater, 2009) To be a young actor in the hustling bustling Big Apple of the 30s, cast by sheer chance as a player in an Orson Welles Mercury Theater production is a dream many aspiring thespians have no doubt had, but is it believable that it would be a dream shared ...
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• Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair [Filmmaking]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 886
  In January 1985, the phone rang. The caller announced that he was Orson Welles and that he wanted to have lunch with me. Thus began one of the most extraordinary and bittersweet adventures of my...
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