Good Evening World (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In limited release, is director Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles. Based in real theatrical history, the film is a coming-of-age story about a teenage actor (Zac Efron) who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles (Christian McKay) at his newly-founded Mercury [...]
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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 [...]
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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...
Matt Dentler's Blog (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Richard Linklater’s Me And Orson Welles (or, MAOW) opens this Thanksgiving weekend in select cities. It will expand nationwide through December. The film (which, full disclosure, Cinetic has been involved with since its inception) premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, and waiting until the holiday season 2009 makes a lot of sense. I rewatched the film on Monday night at the Cinema Society’s...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | yesterday
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.
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
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...
VH1 (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
"High School Musical" star Zac Efron called stage fright "addicting" at the "Me and Orson Welles" premiere in New York.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
WHATEVER happened to Claire Danes? Once she was up there with other serious habitual Oscar botherers like Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon. Jodie Foster was a mentor, coa
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week, most film releases in the US are scheduled for Wednesday, November 25, the day before Thanksgiving to take advantage of the long holiday weekend.
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Director Richard Linklater has done a lot of different types of movies over the years from the pioneering indies of his early career through big studio comedies like School of Rock , and he's always been as prolific as he has been diverse. With that in mind, it's strange to think we haven't seen a new movie from him in quite some time, and to see his new movie Me and Orson Welles , one would think...
Technoccult (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Dangerousmeme is a subversive art project with a coterie of followers on the fringe.” We are naturally drawn to hyperbole. I take furtive pleasure assuming the role of Cassandra or a ‘ Henny Penny‘. I ask people to question the source of their beliefs. We live in a soundbite-sized world where complex ideas are distilled [...] Related posts: Interview with Adam Parfrey from...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles (Freestyle, 11.25) is an appealing, decently assembled, light-hearted period...drama? There's something a little sluggish-sounding about that term that doesn't quite fit the film's spirit, and "dramedy" isn't right either. I guess "coming of age story" works. MAOW only goes so deep but that's okay for the most part. It's a pat and tidy effort...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles is pure delight, a backstage story set in a romantic period built around a magically charismatic character. It's also...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Director Richard Linklater praises Zac Efron for being a "real leading man".
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The lips are wrong. Well, at any rate, they’re different: thin and pursed rather than fleshy and cherubic. But Christian McKay, the thirty-six-year-old British actor who plays the young Orson Welles in “Me and Orson Welles,” has the necessary stature and the vaunting . . .
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ahmad04333 | 05/17/2009
Matthew David McConaughey (pronounced /məˈkɒnəheɪ/; born November 4, 1969) is an American actor. After a series of minor roles in the early 1990s (including his breakout role in Dazed and Confused, director Richard Linklater's second feature film), he appeared in films such as A Time to Kill, Contact, U-571, Sahara, and We Are Marshall. Read more
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