Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Other Side of the Wind originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. It all seemed so strange; the long, sought after, thought-to-be-lost Orson Welles film The Other...
What do you get when you combine a reclusive billionaire, infamous art forger, duplicitous novelist and a maverick filmmaker whose own career is the stuff of legend? You get an 88-minute slice of filmic magic known as F for Fake....
Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This article originally ran as a theatrical review. If Da Vinci was right, that art is never finished, only abandoned, it’s little wonder we consider Orson Welles to be...
Orson Welles was a noted music lover and yet I somehow have a hard time believing he was a fan of early punk bands like Suicide or the Buzzcocks. So, early on in the new Welles-focused documentary They’ll Love Me...
Tyler Smith rejoins IDMB to discuss the films of Orson Welles, who was actually quite a famous filmmaker (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil) before he voiced Unicron and was parodied on The Critic. Tyler makes the case for why Welles...
