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R emoved entirely from Orson Welles’ creative control in post-production, Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) is what happens when extraordinary directorial imagination meets inflexible production restrictions. Considered by some a near-miss masterpiece, by others an interesting failure, and by Welles himself his “biggest disaster,” the ...
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths ...
15 Mei 2008 · 'Mr. Arkadin' siempre se ha tildado de obra menor de Welles, pero incluso en esta incompleta y desestructurada cinta, se aprecia la mano de un artista de su talla. Para todo amante del cine clásico este título tiene un enorme interés, que pertenece a la etapa de su primer exilio europeo, que le llevó a recalar en España para llevar a cabo ...
Angeregt durch seine Figur des charismatischen Verbrechers Harry Lime im Film Der dritte Mann (1949) bekam Welles die Idee für die Figur des Kriminellen Mr. Arkadin. Eine weitere Anregung für Welles war der Waffenhändler Basil Zaharoff, der ebenfalls mysteriöser Herkunft war und wie Arkadin ein Schloss in Spanien besaß.. Nachdem der Film fertig gedreht war, brauchte Orson Welles zu lange ...
ARKADIN: The Comprehensive Version. Directed by Orson Welles • 1955 • United States. Starring Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Robert Arden. Orson Welles’s MR. ARKADIN (a.k.a. CONFIDENTIAL REPORT) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war ...
17 Apr 2006 · Mr. Arkadin gives considerable prominence to the parable of the frog and the scorpion, which, in its evocation of intractable “character,” has been taken by virtually all commentators to be Welles’s true confession. As explicated by Parker Tyler, in his 1963 Film Culture essay “Orson Welles and the Big Film Cult,” the fable explains ...
Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens. Orson Welles.
