A Tall Drink of Water

Stars we love at the Paramount Summer Classic Film series

"...Me and Orson Welles..."

May 16, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Continental Drift

Scenes from the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

"...several hundred was Austinite Richard Linklater's latest, Me and Orson Welles. It's a fictional story about a high school..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jodorowsky's Dune

What's tantalizing but never was? This Fantastic Fest award-winner talks with the famed surrealist and others about their plans for this aborted project.

"...to the director’s own Exodus – and enough nonexistent Orson Welles projects to merit another half-dozen phantom hagiographies. One..."

May 9, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Critics Picks for the Week: Jan. 1-7

"...Marjorie Baumgarten Where the Wild Things Are Me and Orson Welles An Education Kimberley Jones Avatar Fantastic Mr. Fox..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Movie Review

AFCA Announces 2009 Awards

The Austin Film Critics Association hands The Hurt Locker top prize

"...Basterds (from Austin spiritual son Quentin Tarantino), Me and Orson Welles (from actual Austin son Richard Linklater), and Up..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film News

Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March

"...Linklater and 'Orson Welles,' on an island..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Letters at 3AM

If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.

"...you want to understand Clinton, forget Elvis and remember Orson Welles...."

Feb. 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

The Complete Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)

'That film was taken away from me completely, and was totally destroyed in the cutting,' Orson Welles lamented. 'That was the real disaster of my life.'

"...Long before directing movies, Orson Welles was a prodigious magician, always carrying a card..."

May 5, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

Long-gestating commentary on fantasy and delusion is Terry Gilliam at his most Gilliamesque (for better or worse)

"...this came out so soon after the release of Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind – or..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

The tale of the comedy genius' lost film, and how he shredded it

"...vision exceeds the little minds of petty producers (see Orson Welles and The Magnificent Ambersons, or Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune),..."

May 29, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Are We All Ghosts in the Machine?

Rodney Ascher explores simulation theory in A Glitch in the Matrix

"...watching the TV, and we intercut that with the Orson Welles animation of Plato's Cave, because it's a very..."

Feb. 10, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: "I Wish That I Knew What I Know Now When I Was Younger"

Dancing and drinking in Jamaica Plain

"...at Boston University. Fred was a bartender at the Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge. We both wrote a lot..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Column by Louis Black

Linklater Sues for Bastrop Losses

Filmmaker's archive included scripts, props, dailies, and more

"...from his underground masterpiece Slacker to 2008's Me and Orson Welles. He has now filed suit in Travis County..."

May 17, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Lost and Found

'Tis the season when the future is used up yet then renewed by singing each morning out of each night

"...The opening shot of Orson Welles' 1958 masterpiece, Touch of Evil, starring Charlton Heston..."

April 27, 2007 Column by Louis Black

Hot Fun in the Summertime

Citywide Summer Film Series

"...Citizen Kane (D: Orson Welles, 1941): Thu, 6/12, 9:25pm; Sat, 6/14,7pm..."

May 23, 2003 Screens Feature

The Third Man

Based on a story by Graham Greene, the movie is a noir classic set in a shadowy postwar Vienna. It’s one of Orson Welles’ best-remembered roles, and the film’s now-familiar zither music sets the story’s ambiguous tone perfectly.

"...Directed by: Carol Reed. Starring: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard and Alida Valli. A true classic,..."

Oct. 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mank

Corruption, lies, and credits on the set of Citizen Kane

"...new had to be found to be said about Orson Welles' constant fights with the studio even after they..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese

Recounting of legendary Dylan tour is best when the details blur themselves

"...outwit the audience, playing the same true/false games that Orson Welles did with the far tricksier Fake For Fake...."

June 11, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

An Evening of Evil

Richard Hell hosts a film noir double feature

"...best of all possible film noirs and, along with Orson Welles' Touch of Evil, one of the last...."

May 25, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Kill Contemporary Film Criticism: Vol. 1.

"...which she attacks the myth of the 25-year-old genius Orson Welles having conquered stage and radio, revolutionizing film as..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Cradle Will Rock

Tim Robbins' historical drama mixes true events and characters from Roosevelt's New Deal pet, the Federal Theatre Project, and intersperses them with fictionalized elements with mixed results.

"...pro-union, leftist play titled The Cradle Will Rock, which Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre is struggling to bring to the..."

July 27, 2001 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

Page Two: Location, Location, Location

The key to South by Southwest is, as always, Austin

"...Famously, when Orson Welles was asked what films he watched in preparation..."

March 24, 2006 Column by Louis Black

Page Two

'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.

"...The first shot of Orson Welles' character in Touch of Evil is a low-angle..."

April 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Tripods Sighted Over Barton Springs!

The Violet Crown Radio Players are re-creating Orson Welles' infamous radio version of 'The War of the Worlds,' and this time, the Martians are landing in Central Texas

"..."gotchas" of the past 100 years has to be Orson Welles convincing America that Martians had landed in New..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett steals away with what’s left of her dreams in Linklater’s coming-of-middle-age comedy

"...by Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo Jr. (Me and Orson Welles). The entire first half of the film is..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Richard Linklater Constructs a Frustrated Architect in Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Cate Blanchett's character is the opposite of Frank Lloyd Wright, but no less complicated

"...writing duo who previously converted Robert Kaplow's Me and Orson Welles into a script for him) to help bring..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Brigsby Bear

A man searches for truth in nostalgia

"...hats of actor, director, writer, and producer, James is Orson Welles and Ed Wood rolled into one, a visionary..."

Aug. 18, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

John Wick: Chapter 2

The body count increases exponentially in this new installment

"...an art exhibition that becomes an obvious tribute to Orson Welles’ hall of mirrors in The Lady From Shanghai...."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rules Don’t Apply

Beatty's Howard Hughes film is a frantic mess

"...other films like Jonathan Demme’s Melvin and Howard and Orson Welles’ F for Fake have chewed more peripherally on..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin Film Fest Adds 10 Titles

First wave includes Jarmusch, Stooges, Rooster Teeth

"...Arrested Development) on how one Garden State town thought Orson Welles' War of the Worlds meant the end of..."

Aug. 9, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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