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Tag Archives: Orson Welles
The Post-Utopian Trial
The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles The first films I looked at were anti-utopias. Each is a description of a would-be utopia that, due to internal flaws, doesn’t work. Animal Farm critiques Stalinism, The Great Dictator critiques Nazism, and Metropolis … Continue reading
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Tagged dystopia, existentialism, film, Franz Kafka, movies, Orson Welles, post-modernism, post-structuralism, The Trial, TSPDT, utopia
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) dir. Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons is the Ken Griffey Jr. of film. A first-ballot Hall of Famer without question, but oh, what might have been… The story is pretty well known. Welles thought he had … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizen Kane, film, movies, Orson Welles, The Magnificent Ambersons, TSPDT
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