From work with the United Nations to Oscar success, here is what happened to each of the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The ...

May Day was celebrated for the first time as a labour holiday. Since then, Labour Day has grown into a global event, with millions joining marches, rallies, and other activities to honour workers and ...

(For Orson Welles, 1926’s The General was unbeatable.) But the sheer range of this 1924 masterwork is hard to argue with, from the outrageous climactic motorcycle chase (Keaton on the handlebars ...

Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev were both guests in its heyday, and a galaxy of Hollywood legends – from Elizabeth Taylor to Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock – crossed the ...

To others, I suppose, it will all seem more like Mars—just Mr. Orson Welles and his Mars again. Since movies hitherto have commenced with a cast list and a vast directory of credits, we are ...

The kid burst into tears. The director knew he needed a powerful voice for Darth Vader and briefly considered Orson Welles. However, Welles's voice was too well-known, and Lucas worried it would ...

ANYWAY. It was on this day in 1941 that Orson Welles released Citizen Kane, the legendary tale of the life of alienation engendered by a media tycoon’s lust for power. The eponymous subject ...

The first scene of co-writer and director Orson Welles' revolutionary drama, Citizen Kane, depicts the death of the megalomaniacal title character, Charles Foster Kane (Welles). The succeeding ...

Multiple points of focus, the way the story within each image is told through layers of foreground, action and landscape, is like a prototype for film language, surely one Orson Welles took for ...

It was the debut film of director and co-writer Orson Welles, a 25-year-old who had made his name in the New York theatre scene and found great fame in radio. So, it may surprise you to hear that ...