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A visionary a genius and a self promoter. Very few film makers can have the remarkable life he has had, and very few film makers will reach for it with the same enthusiasm for cinema. I like watching and making new discoveries each time I go to his filmography. To date, Citizen Kane is a milestone a landmark etc. But Touch of Evil and Chimes at Midnight are overlooked masterworks.

sewslow

20Feb13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvxwf1jxdaM

rischka

29Dec12

http://eggcityradio.com/2010/orson-welles/ <--some of the bogdanovich interviews here

Arden

18Aug12

Horribly overrated. I haven't enjoyed a single work of his that I've seen.

Hector

6May12

F de Fraude

Luthfan Nur Rochman

25Mar12

Cinema's Don Vito Corleone

Ross Patterson

11Mar12

More like AWESOME Welles, am I rite?

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Renee Hirshfield, Varun Anisetty, cinepheel

Orson Welles

29Nov12

That's very kind of you.

Nathan Romano

20Feb12

The best director of all time.

Robert Regan

15Nov11

"The more film people pay homage to each other, and to films rather than life, the more they are approximating the last scene of *The Lady from Shanghai*--a series of mirrors reflecting each other. A movie is a reflection of the entire culture of the man who makes it--his education, human knowledge, his breadth of understanding--all this is what informs a picture." Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich

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Mademoiselle, Mike Thorn, Arsaib

Robert Regan

23Nov11

Glad you like this quotation. This is Orson Welles is one of my favorite film books, and I could go on quoting it indefinitely.

João Eça

6Oct11

"Probably the best film maker of all times"

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bringthegiggles

30Aug11

A meticulous and headstrong filmmaker - one for a timid film student like me to channel. His story also a reminder of the fight for a film and AHHHHHtheFRENCHCchamPAGNGE. (Sorry, I'm a bad person.)

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Marco Pierrard

19Jul11

THE one !

Sancar Seckiner

9May11

He is the king of American Cinema.

Umberto L.

4Jan11

The 20th Century Leonardo Da Vinci. What else?

your fiend mr. jones

11Sep10

If you haven't seen this film from The Museum Of The Moving Image, do your self a favor and check it out. A collage of Wells' films, with commentary. Like a David Thomson essay reinterpreted by David Lynch for film. Yeah, it's that good. http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/american-20100831

Maximilian Bercovicz

16May10

I love his voice.

Gylfi

2Feb10

The famous last interview he did with Merv Griffin (he died just two hours later) is now available on youtube. Watch the master talk about old times.

2IMMS

10Jan10

Welles's output is very inconsistent, with many critics noting touches of pure brilliance in overall poor films. It's a massive shame that someone with the dramatic flare and artistic talent that Orson had, had a large portion of his films cut up by money driven hollywood studio stooges. It's a testimony to Welles' genius that if he had only made one picture, his only fully realized artist pursuit, Citizen Kane, he'd still be hailed by everyone in film as the most important director in cinema history.