Orson Welles

Essay

Citizen of the World

by Gabriel Jandali Appel

[wpbb post:terms_list taxonomy=’category’ html_list=’no’ separator=’, ‘ linked=’yes’] [wpbb post:title] By [wpbb archive:acf type=’text’ name=’byline_author’] [wpbb archive:acf type=’text’ name=’excerpt’] Orson Welles does not appear in his second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Instead, his unmistakable voice narrates the opening while his camera illustrates a sequence that will forever evoke fantasies about the unadulterated masterpiece that it…

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Essay

The Conditional Magnificence of the Ambersons

by Kent Jones

When I saw this desecrated masterpiece for the first time at the age of 13, I could actually feel where Welles’ footage stopped and RKO’s began: Ambersons is such a profoundly physical experience that the difference is plain.

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