Carol Reed directed The Third Man, Orson Welles just played Harry Lime. The movies he directed are fantastic, though. Cliche as it is to say this, I'd highly recommend Citizen Kane, as well as Chimes of Midnight and Touch of Evil.
F for Fake is an incredible film as well. Something of an extremely modern film essay
yes!! i love it so much. one of my favorite films, period. feels like the movie's working on several levels at once, all the time, and you're left untangling where exactly the lies and truths meet
Ah! Ok I thought he just acted in Touch of Evil! That one is fucking fire!
"I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man,” he tells filmmaker Henry Jaglom. “That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.” When Jaglom objects that Allen isn’t arrogant but shy, Welles drives on: “Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited.” Allen “hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest,” while, in Allen’s case, “everything he does on screen is therapeutic.”
Allen has what Welles calls “the Chaplin disease,” and Welles’ interviews also feature severe criticisms of Chaplin himself.
He gave the House Un-American Activities Committee names of people he worked with who were members of the Communist Party who were subsequently blacklisted. Then he made a movie called On The Waterfront about a brave dockworker who stands up to his corrupt Union boss as a thinly-veiled defense of it.