Ed Lachman, ASC: The film explores the life of Maria Callas, and the scenes of her past are shot in black and white Negative with the Ultra Baltars, which was glass used over 70 years ago in “Magnificent Ambersons,” parts of “Citizen Kane,” and “Touch of Evil,” which I also ...
Houseman and Welles had achieved extraordinary success together before Citizen Kane. They had founded the Mercury Theatre, produced Julius Caesar in legendary, modern dress, set Macbeth in Haiti with an all-black cast and, on radio, terrified North America with their production of H G Welles's ...
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Streisand and the film echoed Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane in that it was her first directorial feature, she produced it, co-wrote it, and starred in it—exactly like Welles and Kane. And exactly like Welles and Kane, there was a great deal of personal animosity around her probably rooted...
“Day for Night’s” best scenes is a dream in which the adult director remembers himself, as a little boy, slinking down a darkened street to steal a still from “Citizen Kane” from in front of a theater. We know who the little boy grew up to be, and that explains everything to...
Orson Welles: Yes, I said Orson Welles, the same Welles who starred inCitizen Kaneand a whole bunch of other things. He only has the one line, but it’s a great line (I genuinely believed for a number of years that “the standard rich and famous contract” was an actual thing.) ...
Costner would find himself in the rarefied company of Laurence Olivier as the only two men to direct themselves to best actor Oscars. With these nominations, he has already joined Olivier (“Hamlet”), Orson Welles (“Citizen Kane”), Woody Allen (“Annie Hall”), Warren Beatty (“Reds”)...
(his first) by a man whose previous musical tributes include a glam-rock fantasia that gave David Bowie the “Citizen Kane” treatment, a “Mishima”-esque kaleidoscope that refracted Bob Dylan through the infinity mirror of his own myth, and an underground Karen Carpenter biopic that cast the...
So in 1978, it was no surprise he decided to try out his directing chops, co-directing with Buck Henry (screenwriter of The Graduate) to direct the fantasy comedy Heaven Can Wait, which made Beatty the first person since Orson Welles on Citizen Kane (1941) to earn Oscar nominations as ...
The first year of induction was 1989 and included such important and diverse films asModern Times,Casablanca,Citizen KaneandStar Wars. Those titles provide a clear indication of the qualities that embody the selections each year. So what does this have to do with Monsters & ...