Archive of films Eyes of Orson Welles / The Eyes of Orson Welles
United Kingdom
2018, 115 min
Section:
Out of the Past
Year: 2018
“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 conceived his unconventional portrayal of the man behind Citizen Kane as an audiovisual letter to the visionary maestro, celebrated for his immense powers of imagination.
Synopsis
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.
Karel Och
About the director

Mark Cousins (b. 1965, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom). Selected filmography: The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 2011, doc.), What Is This Film Called Love, 2012, doc.), A Story of Children and Film (2013, doc.), Life May Be (2014, doc.), Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015), Stockholm, My Love (2016, doc.)
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About the film
Color, Black & White, DCP
Section: | Out of the Past |
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Director: | Mark Cousins |
Screenplay: | Mark Cousins |
Dir. of Photography: | Mark Cousins |
Music: | Matt Regan |
Editor: | Timo Langer |
Producer: | Adam Dawtrey |
Production: | Bofa Productions |
Sales: | Dogwoof |
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