Example sentences for: orson

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  • Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).

  • While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . "Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians," says Stuart Klawans.

  • He missed the mark a few times--John Steinbeck and Orson Welles didn't fellow-travel very far.

  • A biographer of William Randolph Hearst claimed that Citizen Kane screenwriters Orson Wells and Herman Mankiewicz plagiarized him.

  • 16 Citizen Scarlett --After Rhett (Orson Welles) dumps her, Scarlett (Vivien Leigh) decides to run for president.


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