Word: orson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NIGHT ABOUT A YEAR AGO, drunk on sake, I went to see a film at the Orson Welles complex. I wasn't impressed. Since I suspected that a numbness to serious film rather than rice wine was at fault. I stayed away from Orson Welles for almost a year...
Three months ago I began to feel I'd run away from Art too long--from painting, from music, from movies. An attempt to find "awareness" on my own failed, so I decided to go back to the Orson Welles...
Nodding in agreement, I moved over to the ticket booth and told the occupant I wanted to look around to find material for a Crimson article--I had heard from a friend several days before that the Orson Welles was going bankrupt. The ticket-seller, who turned out to be co-director of the theater, assured me that the Orson Welles stood in no danger of ruin, briefed me at length of plans to improve the theater, and--more interestingly to me--told of a new program Friday and Saturday midnights called "The Underground Film Organization." In this program, well...
With a mastery reminiscent of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, De Sica presents the Finzi-Continis in every dimension. Enamored of their elegance, he is also obviously moved by the poignancy of their decline. But he suggests, again like Welles, that they are victims of personal as well as historical corruption An incestuous relationship between Micol and her brother Alberto is hinted...
...spotted hundreds of "canals" on the Martian surface and contributed the theory that they were the work of an advanced civilization. Belief in intelligent life on Mars was dramatized by H.G. Wells in his novel The War of the Worlds and carried into contemporary times by another Welles named Orson, whose 1938 radio broadcast of the novel caused widespread panic...