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The American Film Institute just sent members a newsletter posing the subject question. Here's what it says: CITIZEN KANE will be one of our upcoming titles for AFI Movie Club and it’s one of the TOP PICKS by AFI members. Why do you think CITIZEN KANE is the best film ever made? WRITE IT, SAY IT, RE...

admusicam wrote: "If a good traducer [translator] could transcri[be] what she say[s], it could be a great a[i]d to Welles testimony art studies !" (I'm guessing, "to the study of Welles's work.") To be sure! Mille mercis, admusicam. I love the way Antoine calls the film "un ...

jbrooks: How do I access the Comprehensive Version that's streaming on Amazon Prime? Thanks.

I just bought the book. (Irresistible, despite the fact that shipping doubles the cost.) Will look forward to "immersing" myself in it!

Beat me to the punch! I was just going to post that.

The Bright Lights Film Journal article cited (and linked) in the interview includes a reading by Welles of Conrad's "The Secret Sharer." According to the article: "In 1985, during the last months of his life, Welles was hired to narrate a series of audiobooks in English for the Japane...

I couldn't resist the one that says "Nobody gets justice / People only get good luck or bad luck". As profound as it is simple and sad. And sometimes, seemingly all too true.

While the fellow in this photo (which I couldn't copy and paste by itself, so the article it's in follows) couldn't be more Welles's polar opposite politically if he tried, from the looks of him, if he ever looks to supplement his day job, he could probably make a few extra euros posing as Orson: ht...

Glad I could bring a little brightness to the subject, tadao. It seems to be in short supply these days. Orson always tried, and often managed, to find light amidst the gloom. I like to think we're being true to his indomitable tenacity, his belief in the possible, when we try to see, and do, as he ...

Thanks, Le Chiffre! Quiet dynamite. And as sadly, infuriatingly true now as it was then. (I’m amazed he lasted past Program No. 1. Would love to have been a fly on the wall at sponsor Boeing’s next board meeting.)

Amusing irony, the company's posted a gif of Welles's fellow Transformers alumnus Shia LaBoeuf in full Charles Foster Kane mode applauding the venue. Maybe I'm the Jed Leland of the story... If not to complete the Wellesian cinematic analogies but perhaps, to complement them with the theatrical, ta...

Leftist pundits keep telling liberals that they shouldn't allow themselves to become numb to Trump's outrages, which seem to occur almost on a daily basis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/ Your observation about mass shootings, Le Chiffre, is just as true. I t...

True, Le Chiffre. And not just when it comes to climate change. (As we see when we look in the political "mirror.")