F.X. Feeney, film critic and historian

[Wellesnet]

Former LA Weekly film critic F.X. Feeney, author of Orson Welles: Power, Heart, and Soul and co-screenwriter of The Big Brass Ring, died on February 5, 2020. He was 66.
https://www.wellesnet.com/fx-feeney-obituary/

[Le Chiffre]

RIP. A good Welles scholar and enthusiast, he seemed like a real nice guy too, and even made a few posts here at the message board. I wish I had read his book on Welles, but there were so many Welles books at the time that I never got around to it. From what I've heard about it, it didn't get nearly as much attention and discussion as it deserved. I'll have to check out his BBR with George Hickenlooper again sometime.

[Wellesnet]

"There’s that terrible adage that the torturer’s greatest act is to make the victim go on torturing himself after he gets up off the rack. But there’s a flip side to that, the ecstatic, positive version of it: that the artist’s greatest act is to leave you making your own art after the fact. You come away with your own wheels spinning. That’s what Orson Welles does to you." - F.X. Feeney