Orson Welles

An excellent introduction to Orson Welles's career and accomplishments. Newly revised by author Joseph McBride, Orson Welles now features essays on F for Fake, Welles's last theatrical film; the recently reconstructed It's All True; the still unreleased The Other Side of the Wind (which Welles completed in the late '70s and in which McBride acted); and the seldom seen television pilot The Fountain of Youth. In addition, McBride has updated his chapters on The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, and Macbeth. But, as the author states in his new preface, the core of this volume is still the work written in 1972 by a young enthusiast, a Welles fanatic who viewed Citizen Kane scores of times before composing the essay that would became the book's third chapter. --Raphael Shargel