Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Linklater returns to the big screen with an entertaining backstage period piece that's pretty insubstantial, save for Christian McKay's remarkable performance as Orson Welles.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is finally making its way to the big screen. It's not a big buzzed-about film, but it is, indeed, one worthy of your time. The movie offers a peek at Efron's possible future (which the abysmal 17 Again completely failed to do), a delightful look into creating art in the '30s, and it recreates the nuances of theater on the big screen. And hey, it's...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The famed director, as played by Christian McKay, can't help but be larger than life, even with Claire Danes and Zac Efron along for the ride. "Me and Orson Welles" is a frothy backstage pass, courtesy of director Richard Linklater, to the early days of the great director (that would be Welles) during a stint as the mercurial head of the Mercury Theater Company in 1937.
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bad grammar aside, Me and Orson Welles be a much better movie if the first part of the title were excised, or at least scaled ...
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's another big holiday weekend with plenty of new releases to consider following your Thanksgiving feast this Thursday (and following your subsequent leftovers feasts through Sunday). In the same way that many Americans prefer alternatives to the traditional turkey and stuffing dinner on the day of gratitude, many moviegoers want something other than a studio [...]
Just Jared (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zac Efron and costar Claire Danes attend the screening of Me and Orson Welles hosted by the Cinema Society at Chelsea Cinemas in New York City on Monday (November 23). Claire’s husband, Hugh Dancy, was also in attendance. Zac, 22, and Claire, 30, both star in the period drama about a young man who is [...]
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
We caught Precious star Gabby Sidibe leaving the after party for Me and Orson Welles last night. Do you think she's enjoying her new found stardom and potential Oscar win?
/Film (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The prospect of Richard Linklater making a third film in the Before Sunrise/ Before Sunset series is terrifying to me. The first film was a perfect piece of twenty-something romance, and through some sort of miracle, Linklater was able to craft a superior second film that sees the characters ten years later in very different places in their lives. Could they really do it a third time? Our friend Frosty...
California Literary Review (Free subscription) | yesterday
Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and budding actor who gets swept up in the world of theater when he is cast in a small role in Orson Welles’ 1937 production of Caesar . Young and naïve, Richard tries hard to navigate through Welles’ tantrums, mind-games and mood-swings that range from charming to tyrannical.
Just Jared (Free subscription) | yesterday
Zac Efron shows off his sleek style as he arrives at the Ed Sullivan Theater for his appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday afternoon (November 24) in NYC. The 22-year-old actor and his Me & Orson Welles costar Claire Danes appeared on The View yesterday morning where Barbara Walters highlighted Zac’s latest [...]
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | yesterday
The problem with films about theater is that they tend to feel theatrical. They’re less about human beings than about actors pretending to be actors pretending to be human beings. That’s a central weakness of Richard Linklater’s disappointing new period drama Me And Orson Welles , a terminally bland coming-of-age story about a pretty young man with the world’s most awesome after-school...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is an amiable period-piece showbiz comedy set in 1937, when Welles, then 22, first blasted his way into the orbit of fame with his Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar. There's one great reason to see the movie, and that's Christian McKay's performance as Welles. He looks just like him — the boy-man face rounded out with a little too much baby fat,...
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles, the 14th feature by the prolific indie auteur, British stage actor Christian McKay offers another invocation of the mythos that surrounded the titular American filmmaker. It is an impressive, dominating and completely engrossing performance which McKay, at the age of 34, has refined over the last few years since first inhabiting the legendary martinet in...
Red Carpet Style Awards (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do not adjust your screens, this really is a Herve Leger dress. I know many of you have sworn off Herve Leger due to every D to Z list celebrity wearing them on the red carpet, but Claire Danes proves that there’s more to the brand than neon bandage dresses. The actress walked the red carpet with [...]
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I'll come right out and say it: Richard Linklater is better than Me and Orson Welles . Sure, the indie superstar and inspiration to many a director (including Kevin Smith) is responsible for quite a few mainstream movies, but none have ever been so boring and lifeless as this film. School of Rock had Jack Black and a group of endlessly loveable kids.
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worldgallery | 11/06/2008
On October 30th 1938, Orson Welles (1915-1985), under the seal of CBS, adapted the classic " The War of the Worlds " to a radio script, based upon the science fiction novel by HG Wells. The introduction of the program explained that this was a dramatization of the novel by H. G. Wells. Those listeners who tuned in the broadcast and did not hear the introduction thought it was a real news broadcast,
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