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May 22, 2006 · CAHIERS: While speaking of Mr. Arkadin Herman G. Weinberg said, “In Orson Welles’ films, the spectator may not sit back in his seat and relax; on the contrary, he must meet the film at least half-way in order to decipher what is happening, practically every second; if not, everything is lost.”
Sep 18, 2012 · By the time Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) finally arrived in America in 1962, the career of Orson Welles (1915–1985) had undergone more highs and lows than a roller coaster constructed across the expanse of the Himalayas.
Apr 17, 2006 · Welles asked Peter Bogdanovich—implying, of course, that in Mr. Arkadin he himself was working without one. The great G. Cabrera Infante (known then as G. Cain) saw Mr. Arkadin in Paris and proclaimed it “the virtual vertigo of the Gothic . . . its demonism [and] obscure ritual calligraphy.”
In Welles’s oeuvre, Mr. Arkadin occurs between Othello (1952) and Touch of Evil (1958). Arkadin was a good idea—possibly, as Welles said, “the best idea I ever had.” A wealthy, omnipotent man of grubby origins (played, of course, by Welles) wants to eliminate all living memory of his life before he took the name Gregory Arkadin and to ...
- Brian O’Doherty
Mr. Arkadin (first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss co-production film noir, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid.
Feb 7, 2006 · For financing, Welles turned to an old friend, Louis Dolivet, a political activist with moviemaking ambitions – he would go on to produce Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958). Dolivet raised the money, and in early 1954 Welles began shooting the newly renamed Mr. Arkadin.
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Jul 9, 2021 · A voice-over by Welles promises that this is a true story and that the film will explain how the plane came to be empty. In Kane the investigator is a mild-mannered, faceless newsreel reporter. In Mr. Arkadin, the investigator is Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler who’s just gotten out of jail.
