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...becomes the boss's lieutenant). The clash of the two triangles nearly destroys all three of them, and makes possible the emergence of the movie's real theme, the relation between sexuality and power. Gilda is extremely similar in its tone and its themes to another favorite of mine, Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai...

Author: By Jono Zeitlin, | Title: FILM | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...British director Carol Reed. Set in occupied Vienna immediately after World War II, The Third Man is by far the best thriller ever made. In the course of exploring two sides of the American character--vicious, anti-social instrumentality and unworldly innocence--Reed gets the best performance of Orson Welles's career. He uses his expressionistic camera techniques as well or better than Welles ever...

Author: By Jono Zeitlin, | Title: FILM | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

From the Titanic through the Ship of Fools, the movies have seldom undertaken a more top-heavy displeasure cruise than this one. The passenger list for Voyage of the Damned is heavily booked with star types-Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Orson Welles, Ben Gazzara and Katharine Ross-along with an affecting newcomer, Lynne Frederick. All have been brought aboard to add glamour to the journey, but the effort is futile. The actors struggle, usually valiantly (Werner, Von Sydow, Mason), sometimes campily (Dunaway, Welles), but are ultimately undone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mal de Mer | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...skillful fence, he turned his mimicry of Matisse, Modigliani and others into millions of dollars until his cover was blown in 1967. The dapper De Hory was the subject of Fake!, a 1969 biography by his friend Clifford Irving−no mean hoaxer himself−and a movie by Orson Welles. In recent years he sold his own works for large sums, but the authorities still pursued him for past fakeries. Last week he was told that he would be extradited to France to stand trial for his part in a $1.3 million sale of forged works to a Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 27, 1976 | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

Cliff expressed surprise when informed that his movie "The Harder They Come" has played on weekends at the Orson Welles Theater for over four years and smiled broadly as one ecstatic fan claimed that she had seen the film 41 times...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Roots, Rock, Reggae | 11/20/1976 | See Source »

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