The Criterion Collection announced its first 4K UHD releases: “Citizen Kane,” “Menace II Society,” “The Piano,” “Mulholland Dr.,” “The Red Shoes” and “A Hard Day’s Night.” The 4K UHD/Blu-ray combo packs will be out in November.
They must be cleaning out the closets at Xanadu: Another “Citizen Kane” jacket is on the auction block. The gray and black herringbone suit jacket was worn by Orson Welles in the scene where Charles Foster Kane meets future wife Susan Alexander, played by Dorothy Comingore.
Classic film fans can look forward to seeing “Citizen Kane” in theaters again, courtesy of TCM Big Screen Classics and Fathom Events. Look for two showings in September.
From the archives, a sampling of the favorable notices that greeted the release of Orson Welles’ first Hollywood film on May 1, 1941. The trade paper Variety wrote of its young director-star: “Welles has found the screen as effective for his unique showmanship as radio and the theatre.”
“Citizen Kane VR” is a virtual reality project launched at the University of Michigan — home to a massive collection of Orson Welles’ papers. A team of programmers and 3D artists have already re-created one of the Xanadu sets,
Researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have solved a “Citizen Kane” mystery that has perplexed film scholars just in time for the landmark film’s 80th anniversary on May 1.
With the 80th anniversary of the Orson Welles masterpiece fast approaching, Nicolas Falacci, co-creator of the television series “NUMB3RS,” recently related a story about Turner Entertainment’s restoration of the RKO Pictures film for its 50th anniversary back in 1991.
Beatrice Welles — whose father, Orson Welles, produced, starred, directed and co-wrote “Citizen Kane” — sees Netflix’s “Mank” as a slap in the face of the late maverick filmmaker.
In 2020, fans saw the release of “Hopper/Welles” and Orson Welles’ radio work repurposed in a best-selling hip hop album.
Even a contemporary director with as fine and as comprehensive an understanding of film-making as David Fincher, is still subject to the same myths about Orson Welles.
Film historian Joseph McBride, who penned “Rough Sledding with Pauline Kael” in 1971, graciously offered to revisit the authorship of Citizen Kane for Wellesnet after screening David Fincher’s new Netflix movie Mank — the latest in a string of unflattering film portrayals of Orson Welles.
Welles once noted of his self-destructive screenwriting partner: “Mank always needed a villain.” The same can be said of the movie that bears his nickname.