Orson Welles

Jane Eyre

'The Unfinished Film': A Good Night for the (Almost) Movies

Andrew Sarris v. Pauline Kael: King Kane!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 15, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 15 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris Pauline Kael's two-part article on "Citizen Kane" ("Raising Kane" -- the New Yorker, February 20 and 27, 197[1]) reportedly began as a brief introduction to the published ... More >>

The Trial

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 15, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 15 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris Pauline Kael's two-part article on "Citizen Kane" ("Raising Kane" -- the New Yorker, February 20 and 27, 197[1]) reportedly began as a brief introduction to the published ... More >>

Andrew Sarris Picks the Best Films of 1969

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 15, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 3 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris Every year about this time a large number of critics make up 10 best lists, an a smaller number write boring articles attacking 10 best lists. You do or you don't, I supp ... More >>

FILM SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Every two years, these orphans get a home

Who's The Best Male Movie Actor of the Sound Era?

​My choices in ranked order: (1) James Stewart (2) Robert DeNiro (3) Spencer Tracy (4) Jack Nicholson (5) Jack Lemmon

Fam-Cam Doc Prodigal Sons Pushed Along by Dysfunction

​My choices in ranked order: (1) James Stewart (2) Robert DeNiro (3) Spencer Tracy (4) Jack Nicholson (5) Jack Lemmon

Transsexual Lesbian Takes Hollywood!

Prodigal Sons director Kimberly Reed fills me in.

A Classic Mexican Column to Start 2010

Prodigal Sons director Kimberly Reed fills me in.

A CRIMINAL MIND

Film Forum celebrates the 60th anniversary of The Third Man

This Week's Voice: Rihanna, BlakRoc, Palin's Going Rogue, The Road, the Future of La MaMa, and More

Blakroc. This picture just stays being funny. Photo by Jonah Schwartz​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, Phillip Mlynar chats with the ... More >>

Richard Linklater's Orson Welles Puts on Quite a Show

Blakroc. This picture just stays being funny. Photo by Jonah Schwartz​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, Phillip Mlynar chats with the ... More >>

On the Heels of Paranormal Activity, The Fourth Kind Comes Off the Weak Imitator

Blakroc. This picture just stays being funny. Photo by Jonah Schwartz​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla parses Rated R, the new album from "publicly wounded robo-r&b ice princess" Rihanna, Tom Hull returns with another edition of his Jazz Consumer Guide, Phillip Mlynar chats with the ... More >>

Restrospective: Bad Celebrity Ads

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

'Stew & Heidi Present the Broadway Problem'+Tanya Tagaq

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

The Third Man

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

The Muppet Movie

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

"The Bard Goes Global: Shakespeare on the International Screen" at Walter Reade

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

A Man for All Seasons

Slashfood rounds up the weirdest celebrity food commercials, including the famously botched frozen pea voice-over by Orson Welles and a cringe-worthy Pringles ad starring a young, shirtless Brad Pitt. As a rule of thumb, the best in celebrity ad weirdness can be found in those commercials filmed a ... More >>

Clip Job: Village Paper Hates Village Film!

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 18, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 39'Greenwich Village Story'By Andrew Sarris"Greenwich Village Story" (at the Victoria and 55th Street Playhouse) is so basically stupid in its conception that any detailed analysis would be needlessly sadistic. The t ... More >>

Lincoln Center Honors Charlton Heston

An apolitical look at the epic hero's oeuvre

Nuts, Ninjas, and Metamorphic Sprites

Come on people, how much more do you need out of Princess Raccoon? Also on DVD, Fritz Lang's clockwork noir The Woman in the Window.

Whale of a Show

Taking Melville and Welles to sea

The Hidden Treasure of American Acting

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Paper Clips

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Good Knight, and Good Luck: Quixote Movies Spearhead Retro

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Classic European and American 'Underground' Shorts

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

All's Well That Ends Welles: Orson's Slippery Sleight of Hand

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Titans Collide in Pendleton's Inspired Backstage Drama

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Answers to the World's Hardest Movie Quiz

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

The Rosebud Express

At 81, Alvin Epstein's trying something classic and new

Magnificent Frustrations

A great period piece, period: Ambersons is still a clear masterpiece despite interference

Film

A great period piece, period: Ambersons is still a clear masterpiece despite interference

When Doves Cry

Oscar Declares War on the War

Tried and True

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Horoscope

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Blood Simple

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Welles of Loneliness

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Imitation of Life

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Are You Defending Your Life?

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Endless Summer

Hardest-Movie-Quiz Answers Revealed

Love and War in Louisville

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

A Fight to the Finish

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

History Repeating

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

History Repeating

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

Dark City

The 2000 Humana Festival of New American Plays

Idol Speculation

Notes on Hypothetical Hollywood

NY Mirror

''When the press release for Stupid Kids likened the play to Dawson's Creek, there I was in the front row, ready to applaud the acne.''

Jokers Wild

''When the press release for Stupid Kids likened the play to Dawson's Creek, there I was in the front row, ready to applaud the acne.''