Movies: Orson Welles

  • 1985
    Orson Welles' Magic Show

    Orson Welles' Magic Show (1985)

    Orson Welles' Magic Show

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    Welles had a lifelong interest in magic, having been taught his first magic tricks by Harry Houdini in the 1920s, when Welles was still a boy. In this unfinished television special, filmed between 1976 and 1985, Welles performs various magic tricks f...

    Orson Welles' Magic Show
  • 1960
    Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles

    Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles (1960)

    Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles

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    During a break from the production of "Ferry to Hong Kong" (1959), Orson Welles spent three weeks touring Colonial Hong Kong and Macau documenting the ongoing refugee crisis, constrasting the miserable situation on the roofs, in the streets, in the m...

    Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles
  • 2020
    Hopper/Welles

    Hopper/Welles (2020)

    Hopper/Welles

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    Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider....

    Hopper/Welles
  • 1993
    Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters

    Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters (1993)

    Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters

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    Humans have disappeared, only a few remain who try to hide so as not to disappear like the rest. What do these strange beings hide? Why do they love us? What's its purpose?...

    Historias Breves 0: Distant encounters
  • 1950
    Disorder

    Disorder (1950)

    Disorder

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    Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946....

    Disorder
  • 2010
    Variations on a High School Romance

    Variations on a High School Romance (2010)

    Variations on a High School Romance

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    Four years in the lives of five high school students and the trials and tribulations they face while falling in love and growing up....

    Variations on a High School Romance
  • 1979
    To Try Again... and Succeed

    To Try Again... and Succeed (1979)

    To Try Again... and Succeed

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    To Try Again... and Succeed
  • 1977
    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed (1977)

    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

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    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
  • 1949
    Portrait of a Murderer

    Portrait of a Murderer (1949)

    Portrait of a Murderer

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    A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her....

    Portrait of a Murderer
  • 1986
    It's Not All True

    It's Not All True (1986)

    It's Not All True

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    Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True....

    It's Not All True
  • 1977
    The Force Beyond

    The Force Beyond (1977)

    The Force Beyond

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    Speculative "documentary" about alien visitations on Earth, UFO sightings and how aliens are responsible for pretty much every conspiracy theory, paranormal encounter and cryptozoological sighting in history. (Also Jesus. No, really.)...

    The Force Beyond
  • 1982
    Baryshnikov in Hollywood

    Baryshnikov in Hollywood (1982)

    Baryshnikov in Hollywood

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    The famed dancer encounters various characters in a busy day at work on a movie studio lot....

    Baryshnikov in Hollywood
  • 2018
    The Brother Side of the Wake

    The Brother Side of the Wake (2018)

    The Brother Side of the Wake

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    A remake of the Orson Welles film The Other Side of the Wind, it evokes the rascality of the Our Gang comedies, and it probes the cliché: "Is the journey more important than the destination?"...

    The Brother Side of the Wake
  • 1966
    Orson Welles in Spain

    Orson Welles in Spain (1966)

    Orson Welles in Spain

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    Orson Welles pitches to potential investors his vision of a largely improvised bullfighter movie about an existential, James Dean type troubadour who sets himself apart from other matadors. In front of an audience of wealthy arts patrons, Welles pont...

    Orson Welles in Spain
  • 1975
    Who's Out There?

    Who's Out There? (1975)

    Who's Out There?

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    Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to th...

    Who's Out There?
  • 2015
    This Is Orson Welles

    This Is Orson Welles (2015)

    This Is Orson Welles

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    Misunderstood genius, superstar, Hollywood’s fallen angel... Orson Welles left his indelible mark on the 20th century....

    This Is Orson Welles
  • 2010
    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (2010)

    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview

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    A vintage interview captures the artist reflecting on Citizen Kane and expounding on directing, acting and writing and his desire to bestow a valuable legacy upon his profession. The scene is a hotel room in Paris. The year 1960. The star, Orson Well...

    Orson Welles: The Paris Interview
  • 1984
    The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

    The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail (1984)

    The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail

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    Neil Hollander sailed a ten-meter sailboat nearly 25,000 miles meeting and working alongside those men who still earned their livings using sailboats. This book recalls the authors' experiences with eight surviving craft, all representative of distin...

    The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail
  • 1954
    Trouble in the Glen

    Trouble in the Glen (1954)

    Trouble in the Glen

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    Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the war and finds much trouble in the glen where he settles because of the high-handed activities of the local laird, Sandy Mengues, a wealthy South Amer...

    Trouble in the Glen
  • 2012
    The Shadow Knows

    The Shadow Knows (2012)

    The Shadow Knows

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    This exhaustive documentary covers the history and legacy of Walter B. Gibson's character, The Shadow, from the pulps to radio and beyond....

    The Shadow Knows