One of the greatest American directors of the 20th century is known for only a few films. After Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane in 1941, he fought bitterly with the studios that ...

Fast, funny and rather too eager to please, the documentary “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” tells the story of the making and near-unmaking of Orson Welles’ final film, “The Other Side of the Wind.” ...

Netflix will complete and release Orson Welles' unfinished "The Other Side of the Wind" four decades after the late director's aborted comeback effort was filmed. The 1,083 reels of footage, which had ...

Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of “A Better Tomorrow II” (1987), John Woo’s sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic “A Better Tomorrow” ...

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 ...

Orson Welles is one of the most celebrated filmmakers to ever live. Not only is he rightfully considered to be a pillar of American cinema, but he's highly regarded as one of the most important ...

The cinema of Orson Welles is defined by compromise — by funding lost, control wrested away, footage excised and eradicated. With his debut film, Welles enjoyed unprecedented freedom and authority; ...

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"Citizen Kane" made Orson Welles a superstar. But his next movie, "The Magnificent Ambersons," was edited into incoherence by the studio. Some 80 years later, a Welles fan is taking matters into his ...