Few cinematic tools are used as often — and as badly — as the oner. Also known as a long take or a one shot, a oner is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: One shot that goes on for several ...

Orson Welles was a visionary filmmaker and a prolific star of Hollywood's Golden Age who gained worldwide recognition for timeless classics, including The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil, and The ...

If you want to know what sort of wall Pedro Almodóvar is up against with Bad Education, the answer lies not in the pages of Film Comment, but in the Jan. 5 issue of The Onion, in which a photo of ...

The American Cinematheque and Art Directors Guild Film Society series, “Setting the Scene,” continues Sunday at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica with a screening of Orson Welles’ 1958 film noir ...

"Is there anything a man don't stand to lose, when he lets a woman hold him in her hand?" --Grateful Dead, "Mexicali Blues" When Frost, the Chicano rapper from East L.A., watched Orson Welles’ 1958 ...