TV Guide: Orson Welles

Listing: The Lady from Shanghai

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 30 08:00 PM TCM

Listing: Compulsion

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:00:00 -0500

Mon Nov 30 09:00 AM FMC

Video: Yukalaylee

Trailer Addict — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Orson Welles (Christian McKay) approaches Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) to see if he can play the yukalaylee.

Video: Magic

Trailer Addict — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Orson Welles (Christian McKay) uses his magic so she will let Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) into the audition.

Video: More Time

Trailer Addict — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Orson Welles (Christian McKay) checks to see if Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) knows his lines.

Video: Zac Efron, Claire Danes' New Film

CBS — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Maggie Rodriguez spoke with actors Zac Efron and Claire Danes about their new film together, "Me and Orson Welles."

Video: I am Orson Welles

Trailer Addict — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Orson (Christian McKay) reminds the group who he is and they are about to achieve.

Video: Ladies

Trailer Addict — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Richard Samuels, Joseph Cotton, and Norman Lloyd talk about ladies and what they like about Evelyn Allen.

Video: Me and Orson Welles

Apple Trailers — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Based in real theatrical history, ME AND ORSON WELLES is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theater in NYC, 1937. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night has the charismatic-but-sometimes-cruel Welles (impressive newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production while Richard (Zac Efron) mixes with everyone from starlets to stagehands in behind-the-scenes adventures bound to change him.

Video: Unplugged: Zac Efron, Claire Danes

CBS — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Bob Schieffer spoke with Juan Zarate about trying Guantanamo prisoners in the U.S.; author Maggie Mahar's healthcare documentary; actors Zac Efron and Claire Danes discussed their Orson Welles film.

Video: Trailer: ME AND ORSON WELLES

AMC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Richard Linklater's latest stars Zac Efron as a teenager cast in the Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Ceasar," directed by a young Orson Welles in 1937.

Video: Trailer

Trailer Addict — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Trailer for Me and Orson Welles. Me and Orson Welles is a coming-of-age story set in the heady world of New York theatre. Efron plays a teenage student who lucks his way into a minor role in the 1937 Mercury Theatre production of "Julius Caesar," directed by 22-year-old genius Orson Welles. In the words of Kaplow's protagonist: "This is the story of one week in my life. I was seventeen. It was the week I slept in Orson Welles's pajamas. It was the week I fell in love..."

Video: 'Me and Orson Welles' Theatrical Trailer

Yahoo! Movies — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

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Video: International Trailer

Trailer Addict — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0500

An International Trailer for Me and Orson Welles. In New York in 1937, seventeen-year-old Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) meets theatre director Orson Welles (Christian McKay), whom he convinces to give him the role of Lucillus in Julius Caesar, Broadway's first Shakespearean production. Welles, who is having an extramarital affair with the leading actress while his wife is pregnant, couples Richard with production assistant Sonja Jones (Claire Danes) to rehearse. Welles decides the entire production crew would benefit from a coupling game, and Richard cheats to ensure he is paired with Sonja.

Video: Teaser Trailer

Trailer Addict — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Early look at the teaser trailer for Me and Orson Welles, starring Zac Efron and Claire Danes. Set in 1937 New York, the story centers on a high school student (Efron) who happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. The man lands a part in "Julius Caesar," the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and spends the next week learning about life and love.

Video: Sing Me Something

Trailer Addict — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) talks about how brilliant Orson Welles' (Christian McKay) Hamlet was on the radio. Orson then asks Richard to sing something and he sings about Wheaties.

Video: This Day in History: 10/30/1938 - Welles scares nation

History — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"--a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.

Video: Orson Welles' Don Quixote

CinemaNow — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

The timeless tale of imagination and the human will comes to the screen like never before in Orson Welles' Don Quixote.

Video: Orson Welles' Don Quixote

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander movie-making projects unfinished, generally for want of sustained financial backing. Each successive unfinished effort generated buzz throughout the worshipful film community that only served to brighten the luster of his legend. Thus it was only a matter of time before one of his many admirers bought the rights to the fairly extensive footage he shot for his film Don Quixote (begun in 1955) and attempted to edit it into some semblance of a finished film, based on research into Welles' stated intentions and notes. A fuzzy, out-of-focus print of the resulting film was shown at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, and it was immediately deemed as a hashed-up job, a travesty bordering on the sacrilegious, by the assembled deeply interested and knowledgeable viewers. Their criticism focused mainly on issues that ordinary viewers would deem excessively technical, but the gist o

Video: Orson Welles' Don Quixote

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Orson Welles Was Fat Too

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Season 2, Episode 10: Is a fat baby cuter or less cute? This needs to be settled once and for all.

Video: Around the World With Orson Welles

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Five documentaries made for British television by Orson Welles. The renowned Welles, who directed this television series, lends his inimitable style to this tour through Europe.