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
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While other nations whine about climate change, Germany takes action
By Andrew Leonard
June 23, 2008
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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
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In "Touch of Evil" Welles made the aging Dietrich into the quintessential femme fatale.
By David Thomson
December 20, 2001
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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
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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
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A friend of the Black Dahlia fingers a surprising suspect in the legendary unsolved murder: Orson Welles.
By Jeff Chorney
August 16, 2000
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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
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Tim Robbins makes politics for art's sake.
By Charles Taylor
December 10, 1999
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How to eat yourself to death.
By Mary Roach
December 3, 1999
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Tom Winkler ditched his dream job on "The Simpsons" to focus on feces full-time.
By Jason Turbow
November 13, 1999
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Alan Moore, the Orson Welles of comics, delivers his darkest masterpiece yet.
By Curt Holman
October 26, 1999
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New Yorkers apparently do not support Mayor Giuliani's holy war on the Brooklyn Museum.
By Bruce Shapiro
October 2, 1999
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Orson Welles' recently reissued noir classic 'Touch of Evil' may be the sleaziest good movie ever made.
By Charles Taylor
September 10, 1998
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Laura Miller writes about "The Third Man" for Salon Personal Best movies.
By Laura Miller
March 21, 1997