Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age 10, a director of Shakespeare at 14, a painter at 16, a star of stage and radio at 20, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles:

Simon Callow
Christopher Welles
Joanne Hill Styles
Norman Lloyd
Julie Taymor
Paolo Cherchi Usai

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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age 10, a director of Shakespeare at 14, a painter at 16, a star of stage and radio at 20, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Rita Hayworth. His work was similarly extraordinary, most notably Citizen Kane, (considered by many to be the most important movie ever made), created by Welles when he was only 25. In the years following Citizen Kane, Welles's career continued to change as he made film after film (some never finished, many dismissed) and acted in other projects often to earn money in order to keep making his own films. Magician features scenes from almost every existing Welles film, from Hearts of Age, (which he made in a day when he was only 18 years old) to rarely-seen clips from his final unfinished works like The Other Side of the Dream, The Deep, and Don Quixote, as well as his television and commercial work.

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Tolucan Times - 10/10 by Tony Medley...an absorbing, riveting look at a complex man who has become a Hollywood legend.
Tribune News Service - 10/10 by Roger MooreThe dazzling thing in Magician is how Workman breezily covers the various periods in Welles’ career, periods worthy of entire books, from his childhood as “The Boy Wonder,” to his post-“Kane” “Gypsy” years, when Hollywood was sure it had plenty of reasons not to hire him as a director, on up to today, as Richard “Boyhood” Linklater dubs him “the patron saint of indie filmmakers.”
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Robert AbeleMagician may not be its own rich experience, but like Workman's many breathlessly compiled odes to the history of movies, it'll certainly spur a meaty living room film festival.
Paste Magazine - 9/10 by David GreenbergFor all of its, um, workmanlike assembly, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles is textbook. And given its charismatic subject, that's a real shame.
Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Chris NashawatyLike Welles' butchered cut of "The Magnificent Ambersons," it's fascinating but leaves you hungry for more.
Groucho Reviews - 9/10 by Peter CanaveseWorkman has done a service in making a broadly accessible history of Welles that stands a chance of drawing younger generations of film buffs, like moths, to 'the master''s flame.
Empire Magazine - 8/10 by Ian NathanIf director Chuck Workman maps a familiar rise and fall of rule-breaking brilliance it is vindicated by the great raconteur and in-depth praise from an impressive roster.
Radio Times - 8/10 by David ParkinsonStuffed with fascinating details about the stage, radio and screen achievements of the wunderkind who never quite fulfilled his potential.
Observer (UK) - 8/10 by Mark KermodeExcerpts from unfinished films offer glimpses of what might have been, while Welles in discussion remains an unsurpassed raconteur.
Arts Fuse - 8/10 by Gerald PearyI'm sad to report that at a mere 1 hour and 34 minutes Magician is rushed and sometimes choppy, leaping through Welles's bountiful life.

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