At the time, in November 1970, it must have seemed like an ideal match, a meeting of renegade titans: Orson Welles, the long-ago boy genius of theater and films who never got a job directing in ...

In May 1941, it premiered in a New York cinema, only to become an initial flop. Today, 85 years later, "Citizen Kane" is ...

In 1937, Orson Welles had a strange run-in with Ernest Hemingway. The future director of “Citizen Kane,” who was then twenty-two, was recording voice-over for the documentary “The Spanish Earth,” a ...

EXCLUSIVE: The mission of the filmmaker should be “to preside over divine accidents,” Orson Welles once told me. Indeed, his career and lifestyle seemed designed to foster accidents, divine or ...

Orson Welles played nearly all the roles. From director to writer to leading actor, Welles was an innovative creator whose keystone production, Citizen Kane, effectively changed the course of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the biggest news for Welles in 2020 was surely the 40th anniversary of the drunken outtakes from a Paul Masson champagne ...

Cannes Classics has added films from Guillermo del Toro, Orson Welles, Roger Corman, Akira Kurosawa and many others to the ...

Director Orson Welles’ latest movie hits theaters Friday — 33 years after he died. “The Other Side of the Wind,” the famed filmmaker’s final picture, has been in post-production for nearly 50 years, ...

In his time, Orson Welles felt this Western legend hadn't gotten his proper due as a director (though that's certainly not ...

The only surviving copy of Orson Welles’ 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought irrecoverably lost after a fire devastated Welles’ home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George ...

Off duty, the mercurial genius painted murals on his walls, smoked a pipe in his study, and grew his own stash of marijuana ...

Mark Cousins' documentary 'The Eyes of Orson Welles' is an intriguing and illuminating examination of the great filmmaker's paintings and sketches. By Todd McCarthy Anyone who suspects that nearly all ...