Orson Welles fut un créateur visionnaire, réputé pour son approche novatrice du cinéma, du théâtre, de la radio et de l'art dramatique. Son style directorial se caractérisait par des récits complexes et non linéaires, une utilisation magistrale de la lumière et de l'ombre, et des angles de caméra non conventionnels. Il a lutté sans relâche pour le contrôle artistique, aboutissant à certaines de ses œuvres les plus fondamentales malgré les pressions des studios. Son travail précoce influent et sa voix distinctive le consacrent comme l'une des figures les plus marquantes du XXe siècle.
A companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.
Melodrama 12m, 2f An ingenious idea is employed to accommodate the sweep of this classic story on the stage. A Shakespearean company puts down their rehearsal sides of Lear and curiously take up those of a new play entitled Moby Dick . On the rehearsal stage of platforms, the teasers overhead suddenly become yardarms with sails and a tall ladder becomes a mast. The platforms become the decks of the ship on which the cast sails through the storms and tribulat
Marching Song is a play written by Orson Welles and Roger Hill about the abolitionist, John Brown. Welles and Hill collaborated on the play when Welles was seventeen and attending the Todd School for Boys, where Hill was the head schoolmaster.
The only novel by Orson Welles, a witty, madcap, pulp-noir adventure of international intrigue, blackmail, and murder The mysterious Mr. Arkadin claims he cannot remember anything of his life prior to the moment in 1927 when he found himself alone in Zurich with two hundred thousand Swiss francs in his pocket, a sum with which he subsequently built a vast fortune. Now a fabulously wealthy and influential financier, he enlists the services of one Van Stratten, a small-time smuggler and racketeer, charging him with the task of investigating Arkadin’s forgotten past. Traveling across the world—and through the seedy underworld of postwar Europe—Van Stratten begins piecing together information for his confidential report. But for some unknown and sinisterly suspicious reason, everyone he speaks to soon turns up dead. The work of an acknowledged genius of the stage and cinema, Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report is the basis for the controversial motion picture written, directed by, and starring Welles himself—the movie the great auteur bemoaned as “the most butchered film of my career.” Welles’s hauntingly strange and exhilarating novel remains an enigmatic expression of his intentions and an enduring example of his storytelling brilliance.
Philip Lockhart wird zum Minister ernannt und überläßt seiner Frau Charlotte die Anteile am Zeitungsimperium seines ehemaligen Schwiegervaters - sehr zum Unwillen von Philips Exfrau Vanessa, die ganz andere Ziele verfolgt. Eine erbitterte Fehde zwischen den beiden Frauen entbrennt, die für Intrigen, Turbulenzen und überraschende Wendungen sorgt. Eine mitreißende Geschichte um Macht, Geld und Politik, um Liebe, Freundschaft und Verrat in der glamourösen Londoner Medienwelt, die an den großen Erfolg von -Drei Frauen, ein Skandal- anknüpft.
Mr. Arkadin, ein reicher Mann ohne Erinnerung an seine Herkunft, beauftragt den Gauner Guy van Stratten, seine Lebensgeschichte zu erforschen. Doch die Recherche führt zu tödlichen Konsequenzen. Orson Welles' 1955 erschienener Roman, der auch verfilmt wurde, vereint Elemente von Thriller und Tragödie.
