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Instead of agreeing to Van Stratten’s terms, Arkadin decides to pay Van Stratten to find out the details of his past, ostensibly due to amnesia. As Van Stratten wanders the world, Welles gives center stage to a series of glorious character actors representing the changes in the...
The key aspect of the characters, however, is summed up in the story of the scorpion and the frog, which Arkadin tells. A scorpion convinces a frog to take him across a river, because if the scorpion stings the frog, they will both die. In the midst of their journey...
It is Welles’ unique genius that he turned this movie into a parsing of character and the new international order without losing any of the narrative drive or interest that has always propelled his best films.
“it’s just the feeling on campus that you’re among people who are on average smarter, more involved and cooler than anywhere else.”—Member of the class of 2010, on what it was like to visit...
When a speaker is made to repeat a characteristic malapropism one too many times, what usually seems like an intelligent technique for defamiliarizing us from our own speech starts to feel a bit too much like pointless and supercilious cruelty. It is one thing to have a character write ?...