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 ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

Arkadeen, Arkadini, Arkapopoulos—those are the sarcastic suggestions offered by a low-rent American post-war grifter as the real name of the mysterious international tycoon whose past he's ...

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 ...

Film historians and preservationists are still looking for the 45 minutes of footage RKO cut from Orson Welles’ 1942 film, “The Magnificent Ambersons,” but “Ambersons” wasn’t the only ambitious Welles ...

Read up on the latest Mr. Arkadin News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles, is a gripping mystery thriller. The plot centers on Guy Van ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

What is an Orson Welles movie? The one that the multi-talented American filmmaker intended, the mutilated version put out for release by meddling studio executives, or the post-demise reconstruction ...

Directed by Orson Welles Cari Pictures/The Criterion Collection Orson Welles’ “Mr. Arkadin” is another one of those “ask your blackmailer to do a biographical report on your past because you have ...

This is the second in a series of posts on film novelizations that began on Aug. 26. I have some idea of how we accumulate books at home because we continue to bring them home or order them, used and ...