Let's talk about Mank and screenwriters, and how David Fincher's movie pays tribue to Hollywood's undersung and underseen heroes.
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Turner Classic Movies will help fund a long-in-the-works documentary searching for Orson Welles' original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons.
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In our Mank spoiler review, we examine David Fincher's warmest and most hopeful movie.
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Liam Neeson action movies represent a very specific flavor in the genre. And with a new one out, let's do what the internet does and rank them all.
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Watch the first Hopper/Welles clip, featuring never-before-seen footage of a discussion between Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles back in 1970.
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The 2020 Academy Awards are this weekend, so let's celebrate by counting down some great directors who haven't won Oscars.
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Straight from the New York Film Festival, we have a The Other Side of the Wind review, diving into a once lost artifact of cinema.
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The Other Side of the Wind trailer announces the arrival of Orson Welles' long-lost masterpiece, finally finished more than 30 years after the filmmaker's death.
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Netflix has plans for a The Other Side of the Wind theatrical release, which will bring Orson Welles' final, previously unfinished film to the big screen.
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In honor of the release of Steven Spielberg's newspaper drama The Post, here are 12 great newsroom movies that show the best and worst facets of journalism.
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Netflix will finance the completion and restoration of the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles’ last film, The Other Side of the Wind.
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BBC has just compiled a list of the 100 Greatest American Films. Check out their criteria for being included, how they made the list and all the movies!
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Maybe I'm guessing wrong, but it feels like Orson Welles has fallen away from his perch at the top of the list of the most fascinating American filmmakers. We're a couple decades removed from the prominence of the people who kept him in the conversation; other filmmakers have dominated the conversation as dialogue about film…
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Any fan of cinema must be, I think, necessarily interested in Orson Welles. And for anyone interested in Welles, there are two holy grails. One is the footage cut from his original version of The Magnificent Ambersons. That footage, sadly, simply doesn't exist any longer. The other grail is The Other Side of the Wind, which…
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What is the greatest film of all time? Orson Welles' directorial debut Citizen Kane has often been given the honor, but a new iteration of a poll considered to be one of cinema's most significant has overturned Kane's rule. When Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo opened in 1958, it met with a middling reception and many negative…
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Much as previous generations believe you can tell everything about a person whether or not they love The Beatles or Elvis, you can tell a lot about a film fan depending on their opinions of Citizen Kane. The film is like a lightning rod in the movie blogosphere where you've either seen it and love…
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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
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Most filmmakers have projects they want to make but never get around to. Maybe they can't get the funding together, maybe they lose the rights or maybe they pass away. There are famous examples of this all the way through history from Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon and Orson Welles's Don Quixote to newer projects like James…
Read MoreWhy settle as being called the best film of all time when you could also be called the best remake of all time? Mark Potts (Simmons on Vinyl) and Singletree Productions have created a faux movie trailer for a proposed remake of Orson Welles' 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane. The trailer is a rather obvious…
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How appropriate that a studio called Drac might be the latest group to suck some life out of Orson Welles. The effects company has done good work on films like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I'm not sure I can get behind this new effort. Christmas Tails will be a 3D live-action/CG hybrid…
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Have you ever seen the movie How Green Was My Valley? Me neither. Have you even heard of the movie? Didn't think so. Yet John Ford's film somehow won 5 Oscars including Best Picture. But what's more shocking: It beat out such classic films as Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon for the top honor.…
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Clint Eastwood believes that Martin Scorsese will finally claim the Academy Award he so rightfuly deserves, and beat him to the Best Director prize. Two years ago Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby beat Scorsese's The Aviator. "He [Scorsese] probably has a good chance, there is a lot of sympathy for him, but I have no control…
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