Orson Welles
An excellent introduction to Orson Welles's career and accomplishments. Newly revised by author Joseph McBride,Orson Wellesnow features essays onF for Fake, Welles's last theatrical film; the recently reconstructedIt's All True; the still unreleasedThe Other Side of the Wind(which Welles completed in the late '70s and in which McBride acted); and the seldom seen television pilotThe Fountain of Youth. In addition, McBride has updated his chapters onThe Magnificent Ambersons,The Stranger, andMacbeth. But, as the author states in his new preface, the core of this volume is still the work written in 1972 by a young enthusiast, a Welles fanatic who viewedCitizen Kanescores of times before composing the essay that would became the book's third chapter.--Raphael Shargel