Orson Welles

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/28/2021
  

  ‘Citizen Kane’ Is No ‘Paddington 2,’ Says Rotten Tomatoes

  A recently unearthed negative review of "Citizen Kane" bumped the film classic out of Rotten Tomatoes' "100% Club" of films, and placing it behind some unlikely competitors, including "Paddington 2" and "Toy Story." 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  12/5/2020
  

  Historians Fact-Check 'Mank': Who Really Wrote 'Citizen Kane?' And Does 'Rosebud' Have A Hidden Meaning?

  Film historians suggest the new Netflix drama overstates Frank Mankiewicz's influence over the final form of "Citizen Kane" and takes some other liberties with the facts. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/11/2020
  

  What to Stream: A Blazing Interview with Orson Welles By Richard Brody

  Welles is careful to distinguish actors from stars: “The real star is an animal absolutely separate from actors. He may be, or she may be, the greatest actor in the world, but he is not like actors. The vocation of being a star is separate from the vocation of being an actor. It is very close to wanting to be President of the United States.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3-28-16
  

  Scale of Hearst plot to discredit Orson Welles and Citizen Kane revealed

  Memos show media mogul William Randolph Hearst’s executives conspired to undermine Welles and stop release of film.

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• 4-27-15
  

  America Celebrates Citizen Welles of 1941’s Citizen Kane

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Why is America still so crazy about Orson Welles after all these years?

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10-28-2013
  

  The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic

  Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio program did not touch off nationwide hysteria. Why does the legend persist?

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-7-13
  

  Early film by Orson Welles is rediscovered

  In 1941, Orson Welles made his debut as a feature film director with “Citizen Kane,” a fact well known to everyone who has ever taken Film 101.Less well known is that “Kane” wasn’t Welles’s debut as a filmmaker. That distinction belongs to “Hearts of Age,” an eight-minute parody of an avant-garde allegory that Welles, as the world’s most precocious teenager, codirected with a friend, William Vance, at the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill. Amazingly, that 1934 effort, in which Welles wears old-age makeup that anticipates the elderly Kane, has survived, and can even be seen on YouTube.But neither was “Kane” Welles’s first professional encounter with the cinema. That happened three years before his Hollywood debut, in the form of about 40 minutes of footage intended to be shown with “Too Much Johnson,” a revival of an 1894 farce that Welles intended to bring to Broadway for the 1938 season of his Mercury Theater.