Showing posts with label Orson Welles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orson Welles. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

The Movies I Watched in August

Le amiche 1955 7/10

 

Der Andere 1913  5/10 

L'arroseur arrosé 1895  7/10


Aus einem deutschen Leben 1977  7/10


 

Die Austernprinzessin 1919  7/10

 

Blind Husbands  1919  7/10

 

The Bombing of Pan Am 103 2025  6/10 

Boudu sauvé des eaux 1932  7/10


 

Call Me Kate 2023  6/10 

Cerný Petr 1964  7/10

 

Conte d'été 1996  7/10

 

Fängelse 1949  7/10


 

Freefall: The Reckoning for Boeing 2026  6/10 

Ich möchte kein Mann sein 1918  7/10

 

The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare 2026  5/10 

Le jardin des supplices 1976  5/10 

Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel 1999  7/10

 

La maman et la putain 1973  7/10

 

Les mauvaises fréquentations 1964  6/10 

Me and Orson Welles 2008  7/10

 

Die Menschen, die das Staufer-Jahr vorbereiten 1977  6/10 

Mes petites amoureuses 1974  7/10

 

Nackt unter Wölfen 1963  7/10

 

Numéro zéro 1971  6/10

Die Patriotin 1979  6/10

Paul Auster: Le jeu du hasard 2019  6/10 

Penny Serenade 1941  6/10 

Le père Noël a les yeux bleus 1966  7/10

 

Population Explosion 1968  6/10 

Potomok Chingis-Khana 1928  7/10

 

La Rosière de Pessac 1968  6/10

La Rosière de Pessac 79 1979  6/10 

Une sale histoire 1977  6/10 

Die Schachnovelle 2021  6/10 

Siri Hustvedt - Dance Around the Self 2026  7/10


Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma 2026  8/10

 

Ulisse 1954  7/10

 

Vor dem Feind 1968  6/10 

Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte 1971  5/10 

WEIT. Die Geschichte von einem Weg um die Welt 2017  6/10 

The Whisper Man 2026  6/10

Who's Crazy? 1965  5/10 

Saturday, November 4, 2023

The Movies I Watched in October

Asteroid City 2023  7/10

 

Babylon Berlin, Staffel 4  2023  6/10 

Les bas-fonds 1936  6/10

Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull 2021  6/10

Brooklyn 2015  8/10

Campanadas a medianoche 1965  7/10


Diese Sendung ist kein Spiel - Die unheimliche Welt des Eduard Zimmermann 2023  6/10 

Elemental 2023  7/10

 

Frankenstein 1994  6/10

Guling jie shaonian sharen shijian 1991  8/10

 

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975  8/10

 

Le journal d'une femme de chambre 1964  7/10


 Ma nuit chez Maud 1969  7/10


 Macbeth 1948  7/10

 

Mary Shelley 2017  6/10

Ochazuke no aji 1952  6/10

Poison 2023  7/10


Posion Ivy 1992  6/10 

Princess of the Nile 1954  6/10

The Rat Catcher 2023  7/10

Respect 2021  6/10

Skinamarink 2022  6/10

The Swan 2023  7/10

 

2010: The Year We Made Contact 1984  6/10

UFO 2018  6/10

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 2023  7/10



Monday, April 12, 2021

The Other Side of the Wind (2018)


 

A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture. 

Posthumously reconstructed Orson Welles film is probably as haphazard and incoherent as its production history, with a complex, barely film-within-a-film plot, massive experimentation with all kinds of cinematic trickery and an overpopulated cast, but besides seemingly random shots, there are many moments of sheer beauty and pure genius.


 

Friday, April 9, 2021

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)


 

In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind, in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.

Fascinating report about the making and tragedy of a film never fully finished, in itself a cinematic odyssey, full of remarkable insights in the movie industry and the working style of Orson Welles, actually more interesting and suspenseful than the actual product, The Other Side of the Wind.

 


Monday, April 5, 2021

The Fountain of Youth (1958)

 

A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. 

Interesting and fascinating experimental TV pilot gives Welles a chance to turn an otherwise quite pulpy script into a more elaborate attempt, made with wit and a Brechtian approach. 


 

Thursday, April 1, 2021

Mank (2020)



 

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish "Citizen Kane."

David Fincher has meticulously assembles a detailed, multilayered, maybe a bit overladen account of 
Mankiewicz' contribution to Citizen Kane, beautifully photographed in black-and-white, full of witty dialogue, enhanced by great performances, but probably can only only appreciated with some knowledge of Hollywood history - repeated viewing.


 

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Journey Into Fear (1943)




An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.

Entertaining spy drama with a suspenseful plot full of twists shows some of Orson Welles style, but is obviously not fully his intended product.

Halliwell***: "Highly enjoyable impressionist melodrama supervised by Orson Welles and full of his touches and excesses."

Maltin***: "Often baffling WW2 spy drama...still exciting."

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Compulsion (1959)



Two sociopathic students Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder a boy in a philosophical exercise to commit the flawless crime.

Solid study of an unusual crimonal case with an excellent cast, but when Orson Welles arrives late in the story he somewhat steals the show.

Halliwell*: "Rather dogged but earnest fictionalization of the Leopold-Loeb case with solid performances and production."

Maltin***1/2: "Hard-hitting version...Good characterizations, period decor, and well-edited courtroom scenes." 

Friday, January 22, 2016

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

The Movies I Watched in May

15 Minutes 2001  5
A Countess from Hong Kong 1967  6
A New Leaf 1971  6
Alien Siege 2005  3
An Enemy to Die For 2012  6
Band of Angels 1957  5
Blue Steel 1934  5
Driftwood 2006  5
End Game 2006  6
Ex Machina 2015  8


Fallen 1998  5
Flying Tigers 1942  6 
Gambit 1966  6
Head in the Clouds 2004  6
In Her Skin 2009  7


Inhale 2010  7


Les Misérables 1935  8

Long Shadows 2008  6
Looking for Mr. Goodbar 1977  6
Olympus Has Fallen 2013  5
Rock of Ages 2012  5
Sheitan 2006  6
Solitary Man 2009  6
The Desperate Hours 1955  7


The Door in the Floor 2004  6
The Lady from Shanghai 1947  7


The Third Man 1949  10


Three Times 2005  7


White House Down 2013  7


Witness 1985 Feature 7