Movies
Burning Up In THE LONG HOT SUMMER
You can change your name, dye your hair, get lost – and then maybe, just maybe, you might be safe from how profound the story of The Long Hot Summer really is. Love and sweat […]
Orson Welles
Listicles
10 Great Movie Music Moments
by Wade Sheeler There are those moments in a good movie, very fleeting, when direction, plot and music all meld to deliver a message that is such a pure hybrid that no other medium could […]
The Back Page
Birthday Boy Orson Welles’ Greatest Work
Yes, there’s Citizen Kane, and The Third Man, and F is For Fake, yada yada yada — but here, distilled in this little clip, is the very essence of the man, the myth, the Welles. […]
Photographic Evidence
Never Won an Oscar: The Actors
With the Academy Awards ceremony coming up this Sunday, February 22, we decided to take a look at some of the best actors and actresses who never won an Oscar for their acting talents. In this gallery, […]
Events
Lost and Found: Orson Welles’ TOO MUCH JOHNSON (1938)
Let’s start with the bad news first: The discovery of Orson Welles’s “lost” film Too Much Johnson (1938) is not the discovery of an early feature film masterpiece directed by the wunderkind of cinema before he […]
Movies
The Very Necessary “EVIL”
By Drew Morton In the construction of my noir canon, I set myself two ground rules at the start: I would cover only the classical period from 1941 to 1958 and I would limit the […]