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Best Orson Welles Movie?
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Stranger
The Lady from Shanghai
Macbeth
Othello
Mr. Arkadin
Touch of Evil
The Trial
Chimes at Midnight
The Immortal Story
F for Fake
Transformers: The Movie
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Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

IN JULY



Let's talk about one of the greatest film directors of all time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhb3U2cONs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8RW3K3hhWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUrKCUTUSPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaN4R6KRSY0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7BNKNZ5Gc

Even when he didn't give a gently caress about what he was working on, it was always gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s

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Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

He had a deep voice

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Rosebud means something way different now

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

He's pretty cool

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
thread please watch f for fake if you haven't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIVgUjj6RxU

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I would have reported him as a secret Communist if Had been his neighbor based on his appearance alone

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Professor Shark posted:

Rosebud means something way different now

Not as much as you'd think. :smug:

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Could you emphasize the "in" in "in July?"

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I like old time radio but avoid his stuff because his voice is annoying

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

He could probably have out drank me when he was old and he probably had sex with a lot of classy dames

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Dial F For Fake is good

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
My favorite Orson Welles story is how his last and greatest role was the voice of Unicron in the Transformers Movie and he went to his grave knowing that his enduring legacy was as the voice of a Japanese toy.

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Citizen Bane

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

Ohello

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
my favorite orson welles quote is everything he says here

quote:

Orson Welles: I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

Interviewer. I’ve never understood why. Have you met him?

O.W.: Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.

Interviewer: He’s not arrogant; he’s shy.

O.W.: He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is ­unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably ­arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Orson Welles directed Citizen Kane when he was twenty five years old.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

PBS Newshour posted:

my favorite orson welles quote is everything he says here

Wow...

Pretty profound stuff.

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY
Would've made a pretty good Baron Harkonnen.

Bob James
Nov 15, 2005

by Lowtax
Ultra Carp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs

Good soup!
Nov 2, 2010

PBS Newshour posted:

my favorite orson welles quote is everything he says here

Nice

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

PBS Newshour posted:

my favorite orson welles quote is everything he says here

drat that's hardcore, imagine what he could have said if he'd known the lovely parts of Woody Allen

Mukulu
Jul 14, 2006

Stop. Drop. Shut 'em down open up shop.
I'd fight Orson Welles. I'd lose, but I'd still do it.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
here he is with the shockingly adorable h.g. wells.
you will recall that the two men were briefly united in the national conscience when welles read wells' story "war of the worlds", frightening dumbdumbs, but actually not really causing all that much of a panic if you really look into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUdghSMTXsU

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

came for frozen peas in op, op did not disappoint

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
He's from my city. His family's house is still here.

Orson Welles posted:

"I have been to Kenosha in recent years," Welles replied in the letter, and found it "vital and charming."

But years later, he told Welles scholar and Milwaukee native Joseph McBride: "I'm not ashamed of being from Wisconsin. Just of being from Kenosha. It's a terrible place."

:allears:

Enophos
Feb 29, 2008
Rosebud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
i like the documentary series the story of film because they poo poo on dw griffith a lot but are like "orson welles was the real genius guy is good"

Velisarius
Nov 1, 2009
he was good as unicron

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I love the fat man

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

PBS Newshour posted:

my favorite orson welles quote is everything he says here

Everyone needs to read My Lunches with Orson. It's purestrain gold.

He talks about Laurence Olivier staring into a mirror wishing he could suck his own dick.

Also, he trash talks Chaplin, Hitchcock, Richard Burton, and Spencer Tracy.

The most hosed up bit in the book is that he says FDR told him the Japanese internment camps were meant to protect Japanese Americans from riots.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I once bought a copy of Chimes at Midnight from Dollar Tree

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
orson welles is so good and cool he help invent modern film direction with citizen kane and then later did f for fake and was took part in being just as innovative for film editing

its hard to say just how much credit he deserves on f for fake though, that film is a mess of directors and editors

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Egbert Souse posted:


The most hosed up bit in the book is that he says FDR told him the Japanese internment camps were meant to protect Japanese Americans from riots.

Wow.

That's a take on it I never thought of.

Foreskin Problems
Nov 4, 2012

It's doing fine, actually.
mwaaaaahhaaah the French

Enophos
Feb 29, 2008
Serious post: his narration in this 1970s video of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGnoFf2cZQ

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

egbert souse where is Silent Snow Secret Snow

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Welles edited some pornos as a favor to one of his cinematographers.

spank my snatch
Jun 4, 2009

I love that fat gently caress

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
I tead hos favorite drink was Orangina

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Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
good to see all the love for touch of evil

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