During the early ’80s, filmmakers and friends Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom made lunches at Ma Maison a weekly ritual, and the substance of their chats–particularly the one-time wunderkind’s acerbic observations on the industry–are now in book form. We’ve saved you a seat.
Read more →Orson Welles
Touch of Evil (1958): Movie Review
The camera focuses in on what is a homemade time bomb. An unidentified young man carries it to a car, placing it inside the trunk. Unknowingly, an American with his bimbo girlfriend gets into the car and drives off. The…
Read more →Touch of Evil (1958): Classic Movie Review
Guest blogger Alex DeLarge presents this review of the film noir classic Touch of Evil (1958): In the explosive purgatory between moral boundaries, two men seek Justice by different means: one servant to the Rule of Law and the other…master. This…
Read more →The Lady from Shanghai (1947): A Guest Movie Review
Guest blogger Richard Finch writes: What a dilemma The Lady from Shanghai provokes. Orson Welles is in my directors’ pantheon, so I want to like the movie more than I do. Individual parts of it contain moments of great brilliance,…
Read more →First Time Watch: The Trial (1962)
The late master filmmaker Orson Welles once stated in an interview that The Trial was the best film he ever made. That’s highly unlikely since the American Film Institute voted Citizen Kane to be the greatest American film of all-time,…
Read more →