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The Eyes of Orson Welles

Beyond visual things, your king menare lawmakers and lawbreakers

Beyond visual things, your king men
are lawmakers and lawbreakers

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Beyond visual things, your king men are lawmakers and lawbreakers.
Duration
6 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:21:53
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BofA Productions,BBC,FilmStruck

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Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as he's never been seen before.
A seated king, an insolent press baron. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
A seated king, an insolent press baron.
Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Dear Wheeler, you provide the prose poems, I'll provide...
- That's fine, Mr Kane. - Yes, I rather like it myself. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
- That's fine, Mr Kane. - Yes, I rather like it myself.
NARRATOR: And here in your late film, The Immortal Story, you're a king of sorts, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
NARRATOR: And here in your late film, The Immortal Story, yo...
You're a pimp king, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:09
You're a pimp king,
CARRIAGE CLATTERS - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:11
CARRIAGE CLATTERS
And here's your Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
And here's your Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil.
Belly first, then looming above the camera, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
Belly first, then looming above the camera,
He's a king in his own mind, a detective who thinks the law is for little people, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:09
He's a king in his own mind, a detective who thinks the...
He's above the law and bends it to his will. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
He's above the law and bends it to his will.
Beyond their visual and legal lives, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
Beyond their visual and legal lives,
They can't escape their own power, their own thoughts. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
They can't escape their own power, their own thoughts.
Beatrice tells us this was painted in frustration - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:08
Beatrice tells us this was painted in frustration
It's an isolation picture, too, isn't it? - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
It's an isolation picture, too, isn't it?
A Piranesi in the desert. You were the king forced to abdicate. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
A Piranesi in the desert. You were the king forced to abdica...
NARRATOR: Intense visuals, a man above the law, isolation. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
NARRATOR: Intense visuals, a man above the law, isolation.
You know where this is leading, I'm sure. To Scotland, and your film, Macbeth. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
You know where this is leading, I'm sure. To Scotland, ...
You'd first imagined Macbeth in your teens, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:08
You'd first imagined Macbeth in your teens,
And we've seen your Voodoo Macbeth of 1936. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
And we've seen your Voodoo Macbeth of 1936.
Just nine years later - what a long nine years they must have seemed - - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:11
Just nine years later - what a long nine years they must hav...