2020 was a pretty big year on the internet for Orson Welles, the legendary auteur behind Citizen Kane who has been dead since 1985. In the summer, as protests against police brutality hit a fever ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 40 years after his death, Orson Welles is back — as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit. Storyrabbit, from podcast company Treefort Media, inked a ...

Some Spanish audiences thought clever ads for the sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day were news reports of an actual alien ...

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 ...

Hollywood has a peculiar neurosis on the subject of Orson Welles. Once or twice a decade, the industry attempts to conjure his flamboyant, chaotic personality onscreen, with results that have ranged ...

“I don’t want any description of me to be accurate,” Orson Welles told critic Kenneth Tynan in 1967. “I want it to be flattering.” It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric. And ...

Any discussion about the genius of Orson Welles' career inevitably turns to his complete mastery of the camera. He insisted on his films being truly cutting edge in his use of angles and deep focus, ...