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Orson Welles

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Filmmaker whose adaptation of The Trial captured the spatial contrast between modern corporate life and baroque legal structures.

Mentions (16)
"Edwards gave Orson Welles his acting debut, Welles thought Mac Liammóir was jealous of him but still cast him as Iago in his film of Othello many years later."
The CIA introduced pop music to gay communities · u/Lieutenant_Fakenham · ↑429 · 2024-05-09
"I used to find neuroticism quirky or cute (especially in women I fancied), but the older I get the more annoyed or even disgusted I become in its presence. That Orson Welles quote about Woody Allen comes to mind."
I sincerely hate neurotic people. · u/Present_Insurance_87 · ↑310 · 2025-07-11
"If you've only seen the likes Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert, I'd urge you to look up any of his conversations with Orson Welles as a good starting point. There's a bunch of great bits on his YouTube channel."
Watching Dick Cavett makes me sad in a way · u/Bradyrulez · ↑304 · 2024-08-23
"People always say he looks like Churchill, but there's a certain era of Orson Welles where he looks like Kim Jong Un."
Every post I almost made over the past few months rolled into one · u/username81251 · ↑247 · 2024-06-18
"Some of the films and people he's never heard of: The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Robert Eggers, Daniel Day-Lewis"
"Orson Welles, director of THE CITIZEN KANE (literally the Citizen Kane of movies), claimed that CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT was the greatest movie he ever made. Of course he said the same thing about THE TRIAL too, but he was right about this one."
"She flat out lied about Orson Welles's work on Citizen Kane and caused him great pain in his final years when he already couldn't get funding for his films. When she found out she was wrong, she never issued a correction; Woody Allen noted that all she could think about was her reputation and not th"
"Orson Welles's great film of The Trial captured vividly by way of space itself: Joseph K. lives in the worse [sic] kind of faceless anonymous modern housing but visits a court housed in shabby baroque splendour (when not in ancient tenement-like rooms)"
RIP Fredric Jameson. He died on Sunday · u/kgas · ↑52 · 2024-09-24
"in praise of Orson Wells and Citizen Kane. Impossible to overrate"
"Orson Welles on the Dick Cavett show (of course)"
Great interviews with charismatic and insightful people · u/Dolan_Graco · ↑34 · 2023-11-24
"A cinephile walks in, and i strike up a conversation with the gentleman. Topics ranging from the Criterion channel, Bertolucci, Leone, Welles!"
Sauna's are oddly social.... · u/Main-Daikon9246 · ↑28 · 2023-08-06
"Orson Welles, director of **THE** CITIZEN KANE (literally the Citizen Kane of movies), claimed that CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT was the greatest movie he ever made"
"Orson Welles's great film of The Trial captured vividly by way of space itself"
RIP Fredric Jameson. He died on Sunday · u/kgas · ↑52 · 2024-09-24
"Chimes at Midnight. Orson Welles – 1965."
Some Shakespeare adaptations · u/SirJohnFallstaff · ↑28 · 2023-01-24
"One of Orson Welles', Akira Kurosawa's, and Scorsese's, favorite films"
"Orson Welles is one of the only true geniuses of filmmaking that we've had in the medium's history, and what may have been his best work was torn limb from limb by philistine studio heads"
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