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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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Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

PBS Newshour posted:

good to see all the love for touch of evil

Charlton Heston makes a good Mexican

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Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Someone should do a porno parody of Citizen Kane that 100% looks like a Welles movie

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i7ycxiog40

Marv Hushman
Jun 2, 2010

Freedom Ain't Free
:911::911::911:
I once thought Xanadu was exaggerated for tragic/comic effect; then I saw some interior shots of San Simeon and realized he had shielded us from unspeakable horrors.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Marv Hushman posted:

I once thought Xanadu was exaggerated for tragic/comic effect; then I saw some interior shots of San Simeon and realized he had shielded us from unspeakable horrors.

Also, Hearst was a horrible evil person (Rupert Murdoch 1.0) that deserved being called out.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec

Egbert Souse posted:

Also, Hearst was a horrible evil person (Rupert Murdoch 1.0) that deserved being called out.

Didn't he ban all advertisements of kane in his papers

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Now would be a good time to point out Criterion is releasing restored Blu-Rays of Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story in September.

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Didn't he ban all advertisements of kane in his papers

Yeah. Hearst threatened to out the Jews and gays if they didn't bury Citizen Kane.

Kane wasn't a huge bomb, but it did lose a little money. It became more popular when the RKO library was sold to TV in the 1950s.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
On Ted Turner releasing colorized versions of black and white movies on his channels: "You keep Turner and his goddamn Crayolas away from my films!"

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Hector Beerlioz posted:

On Ted Turner releasing colorized versions of black and white movies on his channels: "You keep Turner and his goddamn Crayolas away from my films!"

Anyone who says they don't like black and white even after seeing some Welles films is a jerk.

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

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He really made a lasting impact on the cultural landscape with his work in both Animal Farm and 1984

Thirsty Girl
Dec 5, 2015

Zorodius posted:

He really made a lasting impact on the cultural landscape with his work in both Animal Farm and 1984

dude wrote the time machine and also used it

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

im gaye posted:

dude wrote the time machine and also used it

Also wrote those stories about Cthulu

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

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BUY IT.

Egbert Souse posted:

Also wrote those stories about Cthulu

that was before moving to a pornographic career and starring in Deep Throat

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich
Poll didn't include that wine commercial he did or Goku?

Voted 1, eat poo poo OP

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Orson is right woody allen sucks and his movies are bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE

Pepperoneedy
Apr 27, 2007

Rockin' it



He was right about the correct emphasis of "beef," too.

A ILL BREAKFAST
Jun 9, 2007

*unsheathes katana*

midnight in paris was so obviously woody allen self-insert fanfic that despite not knowing who directed it i was able to suss it out within 20 minutes. awful.

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
greatest goon of all time

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Grave $avings posted:

He was right about the correct emphasis of "beef," too.

lol

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

A ILL BREAKFAST posted:

midnight in paris was so obviously woody allen self-insert fanfic that despite not knowing who directed it i was able to suss it out within 20 minutes. awful.

All Woody Allen movies are obvious Woody Allen self-insert fanfics

Same with Roman Polanski

Turns out child molesters are pretty self-absorbed

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer
I first came to know him from "Defender"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfg__i2xsU

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
He would have been great as Baron Harkonnen.

What might have been...

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

"Well, when I am with a homosexual, I get a little homosexual. To make them feel at home, you see?"

"I do not mind seeing the artist naked, but I hate to see him undressing. Show me your cock. That's all right with me. But don't striptease."

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

The speech on the Ferris wheel in The Third Man was probably one of the cooler Bad Guy Speeches

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark
Make a decent post in GBS and I'll go down on you.

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

GRANNYS PEACH TEA posted:

Make a decent post in GBS and I'll go down on you.

This is a lot of poo poo, you know that?

doodlebugs
Feb 18, 2015

by Lowtax
Cartoon narrated by Orson Welles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtFU86tAwA

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Guy sucks and thinks symbols are better than stories and all his actors are "actory" and fake as hell. I'd rather sit through a mumblecore movie than rewatch any of that poo poo

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Beef Turret posted:

Guy sucks and thinks symbols are better than stories and all his actors are "actory" and fake as hell. I'd rather sit through a mumblecore movie than rewatch any of that poo poo

What are stories but symbols for experiences?

Carmant
Nov 23, 2015


Treadmill? What's that? Is that some kind of cake?


he looks like a guy who would browse reddit while wearing a fedora and talking about mens rights, and call women "females" with a mouth full of xbox one

Blow
Feb 10, 2004

PBS Newshour posted:

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

This video contains content from Beta Film GmbH, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

egon_beeblebrox
Mar 1, 2008

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.



Egbert Souse posted:

"Well, when I am with a homosexual, I get a little homosexual. To make them feel at home, you see?"

"I do not mind seeing the artist naked, but I hate to see him undressing. Show me your cock. That's all right with me. But don't striptease."

God drat.

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Beef Turret posted:

Guy sucks and thinks symbols are better than stories and all his actors are "actory" and fake as hell. I'd rather sit through a mumblecore movie than rewatch any of that poo poo

ive got a symbol for you all right

:tutbutt:

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

Blow posted:

This video contains content from Beta Film GmbH, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

FYI, you can get Criterion's Blu-Ray (or DVD) for :20bux: at Barnes & Noble right now.

It also has a 90 minute documentary on his unfinished work as an extra.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Emojimovie gonna be good. -Orson Welles

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Most people only watch Orson Welles flicks so they can watch poo poo like kiddie cartoon or game of thrones with good conscience later

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Professor Shark posted:

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

The Lives of Harry Lime is some of the best old time radio. You're missing out.

And I love what he said about pirates when he adapted Treasure Island for Mercury Theater on the Air:

quote:

We calculate that no decent, law-abiding citizen is immune to pirates. There are cowboys and Indians. There are gangsters and G-men. But these delights are inconstant, like the short skirt. I don’t care how young you are: nothing charms—nothing ingratiates—nothing wins like a one-legged, double-barreled buccaneer with earrings, a handkerchief on his head and a knife in his teeth.

MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Jul 28, 2016

Egbert Souse
Nov 6, 2008

"I love Hungarians to the point of sex! I almost get a hard-on when I hear a Hungarian accent, I'm so crazy about them."

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

MeatwadIsGod posted:

The Lives of Harry Lime is some of the best old time radio. You're missing out.

And I love what he said about pirates when he adapted Treasure Island for the Campbell playhouse radio show:

I'll check it out!

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Bimmi
Nov 8, 2009


someday
but not today
He did a series of radio dramas based on Harry Lime, who is still a loving bastard but often manages to do good in spite of himself.

Here's one to start you off ya lazy fucks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkUYR6e1Gyc

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Bimmi fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 28, 2016

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