Poor kid, all she did was deliver a message. Don't try to pretend she wasn't in on it with you. She didn't even know what the name Sophia Bracco meant! is in Welles' potential identification with ...

Orson Welles’s 1955 picture Mr. Arkadin, which turns 60 this year, rarely makes lists of classic Christmas movies. Sometimes called Confidential Report (the title it went by in England), Mr. Arkadin ...

The Criterion Collection continues to set the standard for classic film on DVD. The company recently released a three-disc set of Orson Welles’ long-neglected 1955 film Mr. Arkadin (also known as ...

The novelization of Mr. Arkadin, which first appeared in French in 1955 to coincide with the film's release in France, has its own secrets. (For the film's history, see my previous post.) Though ...

The film: Of the many films over which Orson Welles lost directorial control - The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil among them - the loss of none, it's said, troubled ...