Legendary 'Citizen Kane' director Orson Welles appeared in several adverts for Paul Masson in the 1970s, and not always sober ...

I n his documentary about Orson Welles, the filmmaker Mark Cousins recalls chancing on the actor-director’s Touch of Evil, his magnificent film noir from 1958, as a teenager.Cousins describes the ...

Heritage Auctions sold the replacement Oscar that Orson Welles won for writing his 1941 epic Citizen Kane, though the sale may not have been entirely legal.

I remember in college learning to write my first screenplay. It was such an exhilarating time for me. Our teacher told us the ...

In his later years Orson Welles became a bitter and marginalised figure. Having been ostracised by Hollywood in the mid-1950s because of his difficult personality and tendency to pursue grandiose ...

As The Eyes of Orson Welles goes on, the film becomes less about the art and has more to do with Cousins's own diagnosis of Welles. He believes in chivalry. He had an inordinate love of place.

The first time I travelled abroad alone was the summer of 1990. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Britain. I was 19 and in London by myself.

August 07, 2024 at 6:00am BST. THEY say to never judge a book by its cover: however, Dear Orson Welles (and other essays) written by Co Antrim raised film-maker Mark Cousins appears to be an ...

The prop, famously revealed to be 'Rosebud' in the final scene of Citizen Kane, was almost thrown in the bin until it was ...

It was, Orson Welles thought, his masterpiece, a film “so good — I was absolutely certain of its value, much more than of Kane”. The Magnificent Ambersons, he reckoned, would cement his ...

Items from movies including Castaway, Star Wars, The Spy Who Loved Me and ET have gone under the hammer for eye watering ...