23 hours ago by Lawrence French

In 1994 I had the great pleasure of talking with the veteran film actor Martin Landau for over two hours about his role playing Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s wonderful movie Ed Wood. Mr. Landau went on to win an Academy Award the following year. I also had the pleasure [...]

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1 day ago by Mike Riggs

Tricia Olszewski didn’t really go for Me and Orson Welles. Washington City Paper’s house critic called it an “inoffensively lackluster film” and charged that Zac Ephron’s portrayal of Richard, a young would-be actor who charms his way into Orson Welles’ production of Julius Caesar, “is bland and per ...

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1 day ago by Alexander Otto

«Der Krieg ist fr sie ein erregendes Erlebnis und eine Abwechslung von der monotonen Erwerbsarbeit. Die Afghanen sind in Clans aufgeteilt, ber welche die verschiedenen Häuptlinge eine Art feudaler Oberhoheit ausben.» Friedrich Engels, geschrieben im August 1857. « Raubzge außerhalb der eigenen Grenz ...

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3 days ago by Steve

Ask anybody: “Who are the great men in human history?” Likely you will hear names such as Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, or perhaps even Ronald Reagan. What do these men have in common? What made them great? They ...

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3 days ago by filmdiatribe

What drove me to this film was not man boy superstar Zac Efron, but Orson Welles. Like every young cinephile there was a period when I was obsessed with Welles. I sought out every one of his film I could get my hands on. Welles remains an inspiration for all young wannabe filmmakers. Here is a man w ...

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3 days ago by thirithch

HBO has been known to do some killer season finales – no pun intended, although it would be a perfectly accurate one in the case of the last episode of Rome’s first season. The lead-up to the murder of Caesar is masterfully composed and reminiscent of another plot to have a leader and father figure ...

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4 days ago by El Bicho

Created by William J. MacDonald, John Milius, and Bruno Heller, who served as executive producer and head writer, Rome was an American-British-Italian joint venture television drama that aired in the United States on HBO. It ran for two seasons from 2005 to 2007, but high production costs made the s ...

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5 days ago by Aimee Arens

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7 days ago by Lawrence French

Frank Lloyd Wright said architecture was the cathedral of the arts. I think the cinema is. –Nicholas Ray ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Richard Linklater’s new movie Me and Orson Welles will open in 44 cities across America on December 11 and for anyone interested in the arts, it should be a sheer delight. ...

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7 days ago by Scott Marks

Speaking with Christian McKay is the closest one will ever come to meeting Orson Welles in this lifetime. McKay (pronounced “Mc-KYE”) stars in Richard Linklater’s “Me and Orson Welles,” a terrific pre-”Citizen Kane” biopic that takes place in 1937 and finds Welles staging a modern dress production o ...

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