Orson Welles

  • Movie News

Gary Oldman, 24 Years Sober, May Have Noticed Some Things You Didn’t About Mank

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/gary-oldman-mank Mank isn't just the story of the writer behind Citizen Kane. It's also the story of an alcoholic. Gary…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Gary Oldman Doesn’t Think Citizen Kane Is the Best Movie Ever — Or Even the Best Orson Welles Movie

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/gary-oldman-mank Gary Oldman stars in Mank as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the legendary Hollywood screenwriter whose crowning achievement was Citizen Kane —…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The Great Bogdanovich: The Moviemaker’s Varied Film Career Has Always Celebrated His Idols

Peter Bogdanovich has enjoyed a remarkably balanced career as both a film historian and acclaimed moviemaker. His latest documentary, The Great…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88

Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, the revered visionary, artistic shaman and extreme multi-hyphenate Alejandro Jodorowsky chose to…

7 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Conceptualize Courtship in Your Screenplay By Understanding the Romantic Subplot

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. It is a common narrative…

7 years ago
  • Best Of

ICYMI: The Best of May 2017 on Moviemaker.com

What's more interesting, summer blockbusters or white house press briefings? In May 2017, it felt surprisingly close. It seems as…

7 years ago
  • Directing

Fake It To Make It: Watch How Orson Welles’ F For Fake Rewrote the Rules on Editing Structure (Video)

Yes, Orson Welles made Citizen Kane. Its reputation precedes it and it is often seen as a perfect film. Yet,…

7 years ago
  • Cinema Law

Cinema Law: What You Should Know About Using Other Peoples’ Quotes in Your Film

Q: I’m making a film and I’d like to use a quote from a famous person in the script. Are…

7 years ago
  • Criterion Crash Course

Criterion Crash Course: Moviemaking Lessons From Criterion’s The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

Whether you’re a moviemaker, critic or devoted film collector, lovers of cinema can all agree: A Criterion Collection release is…

8 years ago
  • Festivals

High Energy: Sedona International Film Festival Ascends the Ranks of the Circuit

The Sedona International Film Festival 2015 (February 21 to March 1) celebrated 21 years in February and rolled out the…

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Interviews

Magician: Interview with Chuck Workman on the Life and Legacy of Orson Welles

One of the most influential moviemakers of all time, Orson Welles did it all - a writer, an actor, a…

9 years ago
  • Screenwriting

Screenwriting Refresher: 10 Fundamental Things to Remember

You've got this clever little screenplay you've been working really hard on for some time now. Recently, though, you've started…

10 years ago
  • Movie News

Desired Effect: Visual Effects Society’s 50 Most Influential Visual Effects Films

Besides being good for starting arguments—and even the occasional dust-up—“best of” film lists are invaluable excuses for revisiting, rethinking and…

16 years ago
  • Articles - Features

The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick

Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation…

22 years ago