Word: orson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless jiggers of vodka. At 3 in the morning, when two or three couples started for the door, he bellowed: "You're not leaving already, my friends. The night is young. Play, gypsies; play, play, play!" The guests stayed, the gypsies played. Once again, and at long last, Orson Welles was front and center...
...their work. Broderson, who learned much from painting abstractions -"surfaces, various ways of using paint and the like"-starts a picture with only the vaguest idea in mind, lets it evolve on the canvas, a characteristic of action painters. Landau's Cinna was inspired partly by the Orson Welles production of Julius Caesar and partly by the brutality of Naziism in World War II. While many of the new figurative painters tend to use the figure as just another object or form, Landau is brave enough to admit to being concerned with "the condition of man." Ben Kamihira (overleaf...
Some of them, like Harry Lime (Orson Welles), who runs an unimagineably disagreeable trade involving the maiming of small children, are direct apologists for evil. And Anna (Alida Valli), the woman who loves him, must sympathize with it; the British Major Calloway (Trevor Howard) whose job is to erase it, has to be callous, scheming, and often unjust. Powerfully appealing characters as they are, they appear as agents of Greenes' famous preoccupation with the inescapable sordidness of sin in the modern world...
...With Orson Welles, Houseman formed the Mercury Theater group in 1937, revitalized Broadway with productions like Julius Caesar (in modern dress), and, later, Native Son. They sent the U.S. into panic in 1938 with the celebrated CBS radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds -in which Martians were reported to be landing in Grovers Mill...
...first time I saw Citizen Kane was two years ago in a small art house across from St. Sulpice in Paris. When the film ended, I noticed that the audience was full of young French film buffs clutching their Cahiers du Cinema and chattering fervidly about Orson Welles and what a revolution he had caused with this movie...