Orson Welles

Birth of the Blockbuster

Miami Free Times: Orson Welles, Cocaine Cowboys, and Fresh Art

​Monday: Known for its convoluted plot but delicious noir atmosphere, The Lady From Shanghai screens poolside at the W Hotel. Orson Welles not only directed and starred in it; he cast his then-wife, Rita Hayworth, as the female lead. You can watch it for free this Monday night - thanks to the Miam ... More >>

Orson Welles vs. the World

​Monday: Known for its convoluted plot but delicious noir atmosphere, The Lady From Shanghai screens poolside at the W Hotel. Orson Welles not only directed and starred in it; he cast his then-wife, Rita Hayworth, as the female lead. You can watch it for free this Monday night - thanks to the Miam ... More >>

Alex Daoud Promises His Movie Will Not Be the Ishtar of Miami Beach Politics

Marco Kornfeld​Alex Daoud is one of those only-in-South-Florida characters -- a big and boisterous former Miami Beach mayor who sparred with Muhammad Ali, spent 18 months in prison for bribery, and then wrote an unsparing book about it. Now film producer Philippe Martinez has bought the rights to ... More >>

Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles puts on quite a show

Marco Kornfeld​Alex Daoud is one of those only-in-South-Florida characters -- a big and boisterous former Miami Beach mayor who sparred with Muhammad Ali, spent 18 months in prison for bribery, and then wrote an unsparing book about it. Now film producer Philippe Martinez has bought the rights to ... More >>

Old Film, New Wave

Marco Kornfeld​Alex Daoud is one of those only-in-South-Florida characters -- a big and boisterous former Miami Beach mayor who sparred with Muhammad Ali, spent 18 months in prison for bribery, and then wrote an unsparing book about it. Now film producer Philippe Martinez has bought the rights to ... More >>

Party Like It’s 1938

All you need is Pure Imagination.

Very Minor Miracle

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

California Burning

An epic gusher, There Will Be Blood strikes oil, and then some.

Good Clean Smut

DVD releases for the week of May 22, 2007

Eye-Opening Flicks

DVD releases for the week of May 22, 2007

Ghost World

True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

Pussycat Drawl

Eartha Kitt's unique vocal style and regal presence keep her fans loyal

Why We Need DVDs

Eartha Kitt's unique vocal style and regal presence keep her fans loyal

Notion Picture

Run-on sentence + ingenuity = cool movie

Impossible Dreamer

Terry Gilliam sets out to make Don Quixote, but becomes him instead

New York in Miami

For Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the old photography ways are still best

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

Cannes Do

At the French film fest, art and commerce do a nasty mating dance

Mad Cat's Halloween Treat

This startling reinvention of a Poe story may spark a seasonal rite

Cineaste Alert!

Out of the past, an Italian classic finally reaches America, and Miami

Notes from Underground Film

A series has arrived that promises honest-to-god indie screenings

Dolphin Days

The Original Florida Keys Ladies Dolphin Tournament

Summer Fun Screens

There are too good films around -- you just have to look real hard for them

Reeling in the Year

Miami definitely is not among the top picks for flicks

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

By His Own Creed

Hamlet

Dubbed Out

Hamlet

Eight Is Enough

Hamlet

Fidel's Kind of Flick

A pair of Miami filmmakers head to Sundance with a new motion picture about a congressman turned Castro spy

If You Build It, They Will Swoon

A pair of Miami filmmakers head to Sundance with a new motion picture about a congressman turned Castro spy

Night & Day

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Calendar for the week

October 29 - November 4, 1998

The Wild, Wild Fest

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Stone Cold

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Calendar for the week

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Calendar for the week

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Rotations

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Calendar for the week

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Comedy, Lightweight Division

October 29 - November 4, 1998

The Aliens Are Coming! The Aliens Are Coming!

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Unbearable Liteness of Being

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Size Does Matter

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Woody Makes a Killing

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Murder, He Wrote

October 29 - November 4, 1998

All's Well That Ends Welles

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Bleak and White

October 29 - November 4, 1998

Boise Will Be Boise

October 29 - November 4, 1998