It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get ...

David Fincher’s new movie, Mank, is about many things, but it all started with an article written by legendary film critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker in early 1971. “Raising Kane” purported to ...

Orson Bean, 91, died on Feb. 7 after sadly being stuck and killed by a vehicle in Venice, CA, authorities confirmed to ABC7. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said the actor’s death is being ...

One afternoon in the fall of 1985, during our weekly or every-other-weekly lunch at Ma Maison, Orson Welles told me attacks were beginning to come in, in response to a slew of books that had recently ...

George Orson Welles, born on May 6, 1915, was a man of innumerable talents and unquenchable drive, whose creative stamp was left on stage, on radio and in film. An enfant terrible up to his death in ...

70 years ago this month, Orson Welles (pictured in a scene from "Citizen Kane") began writing for this very paper. But his boring subject matter - a wealth of personal problems - led to a perfect ...

Nearly 40 years after his death, Orson Welles is back - as a disembodied AI-generated voice in location-based storytelling app Storyrabbit. Storyrabbit, from podcast company Treefort Media, inked a ...

Joshua Grossberg is determined to uncover what is being described as "a cinematic holy grail." The filmmaker is teaming up with Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to search for the lost print of Orson Welles ...

On July 2, 1946, director-star Orson Welles unveiled his RKO-Radio noir film in Los Angeles. By Jack D. Grant On July 2, 1946, director-star Orson Welles unveiled noir film The Stranger in Los Angeles ...

Director Orson Welles’ latest movie hits theaters Friday — 33 years after he died. “The Other Side of the Wind,” the famed filmmaker’s final picture, has been in post-production for nearly 50 years, ...

Recorded conversations between Welles and director Jaglom are revealed for the first time in Peter Biskind's book, while Todd Tarbox's novel looks at the friendship between the celebrated filmmaker ...

This article was first published on the Above the Law site. At the 1942 Academy Awards, Orson Welles won the Best Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane. What he did with the statuette next remained a ...