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...Orson Welles’ “Mr. Arkadin?? is another one of those “ask your blackmailer to do a biographical report on your past because you have amnesia” thrillers. You know the type?...
Made in the mid-50s, “Arkadin?? intertwines narrative aspects of “Citizen Kane” and “The Third Man” to probe Cold War institutional corruption. A dying man gives a petty criminal named Van Stratten (Robert Arden) two names—Gregory Arkadin and Sophie—which he tries to use to blackmail Arkadin (played by writer/director Orson Welles), one of the world’s richest and sketchiest men. The other name, it is later revealed, is that of Arkadin??s collaborator from...
...Arkadin?? was taken away from Welles during post-production; many of the available cuts were butchered versions of his original intent. The Criterion Collection has just released the film in a three disc set that contains the best known versions of the film, a new cut stitched together from all known prints and more special features then you could ever be able to watch. “Mr. Arkadin?? is, as the titular character is described in the film, “a phenomenon of an age of disillusionment and crisis.” It?...
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