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A step back in time to the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar" By SeA n Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka ME AND ORSON WELLES is the most stylish film of 2009.

There was a time when director Richard Linklater was somewhat critical of Orson Welles.

Richard Zac Efron Sonja Claire Danes Orson Welles Christian McKay Gretta Zoe Kazan Joseph Cotton James Tupper Norman Lloyd Leo Bill John Houseman Eddie Marsan Freestyle Releasing presents a film directed by Richard Linklater .

Christian McKay stars as a 22-year-old Orson Welles in Richard Linklater's satisfying new comedy.

ORSON Welles became Christian McKay's obsession after he was told that he was the spitting image of the Hollywood legend, even though initially he wasn't fully aware that Welles was a movie icon.

In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by Chris Welles Feder; Algonquin; 277 pages; $24.95. This unique look at Orson Welles, a memoir by his first daughter, is a touching, personal and revealing narrative about the great filmmaker and many facets of his complicated relationship with her and others in his personal world.

Orson Welles is remembered by the world for "Citizen Kane" consistantly ranked as number one movie of all time.

Film opens Nov. 25: It must have seemed that black had turned white and upside had turned down when Orson Welles, a man used to being praised as the youngest this and most brilliant that, began to hear himself mocked as "an international joke" and "the youngest living has-been." When Walter Kerr made that savage assessment in 1951, Welles was only ...

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Hailed in the fall of 1998 as Hollywood's next "It" girl, complete with a saucy Vanity Fair cover, Gretchen Mol's status was promptly changed to "Not It" Girl after her much hyped breakout film "Rounders" underperformed at the box office.

Why won't Beatrice Welles let audiences see her father's greatest movie? By Geoffrey Macnab.

Hollywooda s agreement to aid in Franklin D. Roosevelta s 1940s Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America was more of a diplomatic success for FDR than an artistic one for Tinseltown.

HERS TO HOLD is a musical romance set against the backdrop of World War II, with Joseph Cotten as a pilot and Deanna Durbin as the girl who loves him.

Chicagoans Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert changed the face of movie criticism with At the Movies ; now, another critic from the Windy City, Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, is ready to take up the mantle on the venerable show.

Bernard Herrmann was one film composer who understood the importance music had on a film's scene, characters and overall theme.

BOOK REVIEW / Wit and vitriol after dinner: This is Orson Welles by Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich - HarperCollins pounds 20 SIMON GARFIELD THE older people in the room always sighed when the Orson Welles sherry ads came on.

French/Spanish singer/songwriter and international star Manu Chao showcases politically charged, danceable rock a na roll.

The Peter Bogdanovich story is a Hollywood tale through and through, replete with memorable associations and fantastic success mitigated by mediocrity, tragedy and bankruptcy.

The 411 Movies Top 5 07.17.09: Week 174 - Top 5 Most Wanted DVDs Posted by Trevor Snyder on 07.17.2009 At a time when it seems like just about everything is available on DVD, the 411 crew reveals this just isn't the case, and offers their take on which movies are sorely missing a current release.

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