U.S director Richard Linklater, left, and British actor Christian McKay, who plays Orson Welles in Linklater's new movie, are shown Sept. 6, in Deauville, France. (Michel Spingler/Associated Press) ...

I first saw Citizen Kane when I was ten. Back then, it was hard for me to reconcile the image of the passionate, young Orson Welles as he acted and directed his way through arguably the greatest ...

In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, still regarded by many critics as the greatest movie of all time. He was 26 years old. For such a remarkable beginning ...

Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to ‘Citizen Kane’ by Patrick McGilligan, Harper, 820 pages, $40. No longer is Orson Welles a mere genius or prime stepping stone in the ...

In his documentary about Orson Welles, the filmmaker Mark Cousins recalls chancing on the actor-director’s Touch of Evil, his magnificent film noir from 1958, as a teenager. Cousins describes the ...

Orson Welles’ classic Citizen Kane, which had its U.S. premiere on May 1, 1941, is regularly considered one of the greatest movies of all time, and watching it again (or for the first time), you ...