Daily Briefing. Welles's "Heart of Darkness"
David HudsonAlso: Owen Hatherley on Patrick Keiller, Cavett on Groucho, Scorsese’s storyboards and more.
Orson Welles
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Daily Briefing. Guy Maddin's "SPIRITISMES" + Gene Tierney and More
David HudsonAlso: Ross Douthat, film critic. Woody Allen on Broadway. Whit Stillman at Harvard. And Orson Welles performs Shakespeare on the radio.
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Daily Briefing. Cahiers du Cinema in English 11
David HudsonThe issue features a dossier on Orson Welles. Also: Remembering Doe Avedon.
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Image of the day. Orson Welles in "The Adventures of Tintin"
Daniel KasmanA joshing jab at the great auteur in the English adaptation of Red Rackham’s Treasure.
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Daily Briefing. Spielberg's "War Horse" and Crowe's "Zoo"
David HudsonAlso: Reitman’s Young Adult. Masters of Cinema’s Touch of Evil Blu-ray. Teaser for Miike’s Ai To Makoto.
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Obsessions: Nine Notes Regarding the Music of Bernard Herrmann
Paul ClipsonA selection of the great composer’s most interesting music cues, in honor of his centennial.
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Bernard Herrmann @ Film Forum
David HudsonThe Bernard Herrmann centennial is the occasion for a two-week, 22-film retrospective.
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Daily Briefing. Chris Fujiwara is Edinburgh's New Artistic Director
David HudsonAlso: Michael Sragow semi-retires, ohn Calley dies and Slate binges on Welles and Soderbergh.
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"Citizen Kane" @ 70
David HudsonUpdated through 5/5. "It storms after us down the corridors of history like its own hero. Bloated, grotesque, tremendous; destroying as it goes; influencing and renewing too. Every fresh decade calls
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Video of the day. The Last Footage of Orson Welles
Daniel KasmanWelles reads from Charles Lindbergh’s “The Spirit of St. Louis” in this, supposedly the last footage of the great artist before he died.
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Cinephilia, the Science of Hope, and the Sacred Ground beneath the Grapeland Heights Police Substation in Miami, Florida
Doug Dibbern1. We usually write about movies we’ve seen, of course, but if you care deeply about film, you know that some of our most intense cinematic relationships are with movies we’ve never seen. Every cinephile knows
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Image of the day. Orson Welles Showing How It's Done
Daniel KasmanVia.