Tension between art and politics marks the new documentary The Eyes of Orson Welles. The strain begins as director Mark Cousins circles around the enormity of his subject — as if interest in ...

Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches and Drawings from the Welles Estate offers a trove of Welles paintings and drawings, most unseen by the general public and held since his death in 1985 by his ...

Mark Cousins dives deep into the private drawings and paintings of Orson Welles to shine new light on the passions, politics and imagination of this 20th-century genius. Show more Granted ...

Orson Welles was as artistic as possible ... In the final analysis, who was the greater artist—Welles the director or Welles the actor? You can’t really say that Welles’s acting is ...

art, sex and “The Last Movie,” while Henry Jaglom’s recorded lunchtime conversations with Welles in the 1980s would later be turned into the book “My Lunches With Orson.” So Filip Jan ...

The Welles sought to highlight American cinema as an art form. It was named for Orson Welles, the filmmaker staffers considered America’s greatest auteur. By that point, Welles was living in ...

HANSEN: Orson Welles was a thorn in the side of the movie ... And I think the obvious reason for that is that my father was making art films and Hollywood wanted entertainment.

In 1937, Orson Welles had a strange run-in with Ernest Hemingway ... “Some damn faggot who runs an art theatre thinks he can tell me how to write narration.” Welles responded by assuming ...

Orson Welles was prenatally named by his father ... He developed quite a nice touch at scene-painting and even executed a mural for a classroom. Fortunately, he was at a school which placed ...