Orson Welles

The Little Tramp's killer comedy The Little Tramp's killer comedy

How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.
By Andrew O'Hehir Jun 12, 2008

  • Germany: We are the green champions, of the world

    While other nations whine about climate change, Germany takes action
    By Andrew Leonard June 23, 2008

  • Peter Bogdanovich

    The director of "The Cat's Meow" discusses the truth about "Citizen Kane," the philanderings of Charlie Chaplin and the lies Hollywood tells us about death and dying.
    By Stephen Lemons April 19, 2002

  • Tanya's chili

    In "Touch of Evil" Welles made the aging Dietrich into the quintessential femme fatale.
    By David Thomson December 20, 2001

  • Jeanne Moreau

    When you visit the woman Orson Welles called "the greatest actress in the world," don't try to light her cigarette -- you might get burned.
    By Jeff Galipeaux December 6, 2001

  • "Touch of Evil"

    The famous unbroken shot that opens Orson Welles' gutter-baroque extravaganza gets cleaned up -- and, at last, shown as Welles intended it.
    By Michael Sragow November 1, 2000

  • Citizen Killer?

    A friend of the Black Dahlia fingers a surprising suspect in the legendary unsolved murder: Orson Welles.
    By Jeff Chorney August 16, 2000

  • The disc master

    A conversation with the Criterion Collection's Peter Becker, the man who created the ultimate DVD versions of "Grand Illusion," "This Is Spinal Tap" -- and "Armageddon."
    By Michael Sragow March 23, 2000

  • "Cradle Will Rock"

    Tim Robbins makes politics for art's sake.
    By Charles Taylor December 10, 1999

  • Unhappy meal

    How to eat yourself to death.
    By Mary Roach December 3, 1999

  • Party pooper

    Tom Winkler ditched his dream job on "The Simpsons" to focus on feces full-time.
    By Jason Turbow November 13, 1999

  • "From Hell"

    Alan Moore, the Orson Welles of comics, delivers his darkest masterpiece yet.
    By Curt Holman October 26, 1999

  • Everyone's a critic

    New Yorkers apparently do not support Mayor Giuliani's holy war on the Brooklyn Museum.
    By Bruce Shapiro October 2, 1999

  • Ballad of a fat man

    Orson Welles' recently reissued noir classic 'Touch of Evil' may be the sleaziest good movie ever made.
    By Charles Taylor September 10, 1998

  • The Third Man

    Laura Miller writes about "The Third Man" for Salon Personal Best movies.
    By Laura Miller March 21, 1997
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