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trial of a soapbox romantic
The problem with the prodigy, the adult prodigy, is the fact of dealing with once being great, and living perpetually in eclipse. Orson Welles was a romantic since birth, a romantic always outside, outside adapting to the narrow and canny … Continue reading
welles: frozen in the role of prodigy
Every discussion of Citizen Kane, or of any other Welles movie, is sure to bring up his camera sense. In Kane there is the brilliant pseudo newsreel of the great man’s death, the senate investigation scene that is modeled on … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Hopsicker, David Bordwell, Edward Bernays, H.G. Wells, Ivy Lee, James Naremore, John Houseman, John Huston, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles The Cradle Will Rock, Osron Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Bogdanovitch, William Wyler
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illusions of fiction
Orson Welles. The prodigy. It is only rarely that the child prodigy converts into an adult prodigy, in fact statistically not very promising, but Welles pierced the prodigal ordeal of circumstances into an association with real achievement. The crowning of … Continue reading
prodigal radio: mercury in midtown
Orson Welles. The baggy trickster who scared the radio audience at 23, and in infuriated the Hearst empire at 25, with Citizen Kane. …In the mid 1930’s, America was still far down in the Depression; as a time for launching … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald MacLeish, George Bernard Shaw, John Houseman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Mercury Theater, Orson Welles The March of Time, Orson Welles The Shadow, thomas dekker, Thornton Wilder
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kane: “auteur theory”
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes : … American cinema’s one-time enfante terrible, and one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic stars—making him one of my all-time favorites—we take a look at some graphic expressions of his most famous film, the European-inflected CITIZEN KANE, … Continue reading
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Tagged Francois Truffaut, Francois truffaut "auteur theory", french new wave cinema, Hedda Hopper, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Howard Hughes, Jean-Luc Godard, jesse marinoff reyes, John Houseman, Joseph Pulitzer, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orson Welles, Orson Welles Citizen Kane, Robert McCormick, William Randolph Hearst
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