That time Orson Welles met Andy Kaufman
Orson Welles and Andy Kaufman were arguably the two greatest pranksters in American history. Welles infamously sparked an intense bout of public hysteria when his…
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‘The Immortal Story’: Orson Welles’ first color film/final fiction feature finally coming to Blu-ray
On August 30th, Criterion will release Blu-ray and DVD editions of Orson Welles’ The Immortal Story. This 1968 work was Welles’ first color picture and…
Watch Burt Reynolds and the Muppets on the unaired pilot for ‘The Orson Welles Show,’ 1978
Between the twin humiliations of his frozen peas and Paul Masson commercials, and unable to finish his last feature The Other Side of the Wind,…
‘Orson Welles’ Sketch Book,’ marvelous British TV series from 1955
By the mid-1950s the years of Orson Welles scrambling this way and that for some money to finance his cinematic and theatrical efforts were well…
‘Touch of Evil’: The movie that finished Orson Welles in Hollywood
In February 1957, Orson Welles walked onto to Stage 19 at Universal Studios to begin directing his first Hollywood movie in almost a decade–Touch of…
‘Future Shock’: Orson Welles narrates gloriously schlocky documentary on techno-pessimism, 1972
I was aware of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock when I was growing up partly because my dad was sort of in the futurology business himself;…
Dangerous Finds: Orson Welles porn; ClickHole vs BuzzFeed; Will American workers get a raise soon?
NSFW: Watch the Porn Scene Edited by Orson Welles! He owed the director a favor, apparently. (Vulture) Bernie Sanders: ‘We’re Going to Win New Hampshire’…
Orson Welles talks about the conspiracy to suppress ‘Citizen Kane’ in 1960 interview
This short interview from 1960 has some fascinating comments from Orson Welles on the uphill battle he faced getting Citizen Kane into theaters. It was…
Orson Welles’ little-known TV pilot: ‘The Fountain of Youth’ is radical mini masterpiece
Orson Welles wrote, starred in, directed, art directed and even produced the music for “The Fountain of Youth,” an ingeniously devised and wryly funny half-hour…
F is for Orson Welles’ FBI file
From 1941 until 1949, Orson Welles, director of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, was a serious object of surveillance by the FBI. This is…