Word: orson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orson Welles: 1001 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 868-3600. Joshua Then and Now: 2:15, 5:30, 7:40, 10; Rebel Without A Cause: 1:30, 5:40; East of Eadon: 3:30; Giant: 7:45; Kerouac with Pull My Daisy: 1:30, 5:30, 9:30; Insignificance...
There's not the same compelling reason to see James Dean's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Orson Welles), except to toss the title around. Here we have desperation at its most stylish and vacuous, the new boy in town who has to pose tougher than a steroid-fed General Patton. But it's not just a cause that The Rebel needs, it's a family, friends. Where Natalie Wood's acting slips up a little, the skillful filming covers up, setting Dean in a fraction of a frame filled with lonely cliffs and ravines...
...GIANT (Orson Welles), the longish tale of the fading Texas aristocrat, played by the Rock Hudson (hoid o' him?), and the messed-up poor kid who slips on oil to become the messed-up rich kid. The one rising swiftly up, the second slipping pathetically down, the once and future giants both are desperately seeking the same Elizabeth Taylor. His last film, Giant whispers the tragedy of Dean's death more painfully than any possible obituary...
...Orson Welles: 1001 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 868-3600, Joshua Then and Now: 2:15, 5:30, 7:40, 10; Rebel Without A Cause: 1:30, 5:35; East of Eadon: 3:30; Giant: 7:40; American Flyers...
Leaming is acutely hostile to more critical predecessors, notably Charles Higham, who argued in The Films of Orson Welles (1970) that the director suffered a neurotic fear of finishing his movies. "A destructive book," says Leaming. Welles shares her animosity. In one of his expensively unfinished films, The Other Side of the Wind, which stars John Huston as an aging movie director attempting a comeback, Welles included a snotty critic called "Higgam." This role was played for a time by Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was also collaborating on a book, titled This Is Orson Welles, until Welles canceled the book...