Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles

In Theaters This Week (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin, Kelly Reilly, Eddie Marsan, Imogen Poots

David Denby: "Me and Orson Welles" and "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans."

The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

The lips are wrong. Well, at any rate, they’re different: thin and pursed rather than fleshy and cherubic. But Christian McKay, the thirty-six-year-old British actor who plays the young Orson Welles in “Me and Orson Welles,” has the necessary stature and the vaunting . . .

Zac Efron’s Bond ambition

Fametastic (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Zac Efron wants to play a villain in a James Bond movie. The ‘Me and Orson Welles’ actor - who is best known for his role as clean-cut student Troy Bolton in the ‘High School Musical‘ franchise - loves the series of films about the iconic British spy and wants a role in the next addition [...]

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Get Out: Swimsuit Ice Skating, Orson Welles 2x, Furoshiki How-To, Love Like a Frenchwoman

LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday

Photo by KingoftheHill via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Swimsuit Ice Skating @ Seaside Ice The popular Swimsuit Ice Skating Weekend returns to sunny Seaside Ice --the only outdoor ice skating rink on the beach. Skate in your swimwear from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for the best bathing suit, too! (Of course, you can also skate in your "regular" clothes from 4-10...

Orson Welles: not a self-destructive failure

Arts of Innovation blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

From Dennis Lim’s discussion of the new film “Me and Orson Welles” in the New York Times: “In grappling with an artist who revolutionized every medium he worked in but spent his final decades as a Hollywood outcast and a pop-culture punch line, Welles’s biographers … differ on whether he was a radical genius who fell [...]

Orson Welles on the up — and down

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday

Everything's coming up Orson. Over the next few weeks, Toronto will be visited by two dynamically different portraits of Orson Welles — one on stage, one on screen.

Rick and Orson Welles

Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009

As Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles prepares its U.S. release (Thanksgiving weekend in select cities, and then nationwide soon after), there’s a growing number of interviews with Linklater about all kinds of topics (especially questions about his next projects). This weekend’s New York Times has a good article by Dennis Lim that circles the myth of the real Orson Welles, with...

New Movies for Friday, November 25th, 2009

Popcorn Bytes (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

This week: working with Orson Welles, stay away from the ninja assassin, a hand-drawn fantasy, surviving the apocalypse, and a good ol' babysitting disaster movie. Me and Orson Welles . Genre: Drama. Starring: Zac Efron. A young man is picked by Orson Welles to play Julius Caesar in his big production. PG-13 for sexual references and smoking. Ninja Assassin . Genre: Action. Starring: Rain. The assassin...

AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing November 25 and 27, 2009

Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Free subscription) | yesterday

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Wednesday, November 25: The End of Poverty? - Cinema Libre Studio, 106 mins., limited Kassim The Dream - IFC Films, 87 mins., limited Fantastic Mr. Fox - 20th Century Fox, 87 mins. Me and Orson Welles - Freestyle Releasing, 114 mins., limited - Screenplay by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo [...]

Manx fans welcome Hollywood star

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

About 200 fans wait to catch a glimpse and welcome back film star Zac Efron to the Isle of Man for the premiere of "Me and Orson Welles".

What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #18

RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday

This week wasn't as slow as it looks when it comes to movie watching as much as I saw a lot in theaters including Everybody's Fine, Me and Orson Welles, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Ninja Assassin. I also watched John Woo's Red Cliff a second time before reviewing it as well as watched [...]

This Day in Film History (What Happened on “William Randolph’s Hearse”?)

A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | yesterday

November 21, 1924—Three Hawaiian guitarists played at the funeral of Hollywood player Thomas Ince , but that was only the latest of the bizarre, inexplicable events surrounding his hurried departure a few days before from the yacht of William Randolph Hearst . The incident sparked a three-quarters-of-a-century scandal and mystery involving the tabloid publisher; his mistress, silent-film comedienne...

Awesome Orson, Strictly Christine and Sex down the tube | Trailer trash

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

> > Awesome Orson British actor Christian McKay is a revelation in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles , which opens next month. McKay (below) seizes the chance of his first film to give a brilliant performance as young Orson, staging his legendary production of Julius Caesar at New York's Mercury Theatre in 1937. Awards surely await. McKay comes from Bury (Caesar, not to praise him...?)...

Zac Efron Talks Tousled Hair and Going to College

Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009

He, in addition to the two topics, also talks about his upcoming film " Me and Orson Welles " and his future plans in showbiz.

Dear Gary Susman

Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Your defense of Glenn Beck is touching on AOL , but it comes up very short and very sad. You claim that the big bad lefty meanie comedians are picking on Beck even when he is sick. Well, let's get something straight. Glenn Beck is inciting violence and helping legitimizing radical militia and white nationalist movements that otherwise would still be chatting on their MySpace pages. And the hatred...