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Film Diary 2021
Favorite Movies of All Time (2015 Edition) (1001 movies items)" No Change 2014: 276 2013: 279 2012: 287 2011: 292 2010: 294 2009: 297 2008: 300 "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2014 Edition) (1000 movies items)" 2013: 279 2012: 287 2011: 292 2010: 294 2009: 297 2008: 300 "
1001 Movies ... my own version (1950's) (95 movies items)" Notes: Even though he did manage to direct arguably the greatest movie ever made, Orson Welles did have one very tumultuous career but some of his other directing efforts were still pretty damned amazing and this flick was definitely one of them. Like many other movies directed by the great master, he had once again some major issues with the studio producing this picture and they tempered with the end-results without consulting Welles who was fired during the post-production. Fortunately, at "
1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)" Notes: Even though he did manage to direct arguably the greatest movie ever made, Orson Welles did have one very tumultuous career but some of his other directing efforts were still pretty damned amazing and this flick was definitely one of them. Like many other movies directed by the great master, he had once again some major issues with the studio producing this picture and they tempered with the end-results without consulting Welles who was fired during the post-production. Fortunately, at "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2013 Edition) (1000 movies items)"2012: 287 2011: 292 2010: 294 2009: 297 2008: 300 "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2012 Edition) (1000 movies items)"2011: 292 2010: 294 2009: 297 2008: 300 "
Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)"Retrospectively, The Lady from Shanghai plays as a rough draft for Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, as it similarly operates as the audio-visual equivalent of a draftsman’s sketchbook, with the nearly incoherent plot serving as a springboard for a variety of self-contained vignettes, ostentatiously symbolic shots, motifs, and probable ideas for future projects. But if The Lady from Shanghai coasts, Touch of Evil soars, as it’s charged by a bracing sense of autobiographical grandeur. In short:"
Favorite Movies of All Time (2010 Edition)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)" Notes: Even though he did manage to direct arguably the greatest movie ever made, Orson Welles did have one very tumultuous career but some of his other directing efforts were still pretty damned amazing and this flick was definitely one of them. Like many other movies directed by the great master, he had once again some major issues with the studio producing this picture and they tempered with the end-results without consulting Welles who was fired during the post-production. Fortunately, at "
Favorite Movies of All Time (2009 Edition)
