Good filmmakers are great cinephiles who truly appreciate the work of their revered colleagues. Shindô created a documentary on Mizoguchi, Bogdanovich on Ford, Scorsese on Kazan. “Can we tell your story anew?” Mark Cousins asks Orson Welles, and then proceeds to look upon this iconic figure of 20th-century film from a practically unknown perspective: as the creator of hundreds of drawings and paintings to which Cousins gained exclusive access thanks in part to Welles’s daughter Beatrice. Cousins’s unconventional portrayal of the man behind Citizen Kane, conceived as an audiovisual letter to the celebrated visionary, recently premiered at Cannes and follows the publication of a new book by the director, this time The Story of Looking.