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The Eyes of Orson Welles

It was the people and facesthat you preferred

It was the people and faces
that you preferred

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It was the people and faces that you preferred.
Duration
4 seconds
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25
Timestamp in Movie
00:20:02
Uploaded
Jun 22, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
BofA Productions,BBC,FilmStruck

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Movie Summary

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.
You went to the Aran Islands - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:08
You went to the Aran Islands
It's here that the documentarist Robert Flaherty had made this film, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:09
It's here that the documentarist Robert Flaherty had ma...
His eyes scanned between faces, too. The camera pans between them. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
His eyes scanned between faces, too. The camera pans between...
Your mother had taken you to see his early film, Nanook of the North - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Your mother had taken you to see his early film, Nanook of t...
Same for Mr Costello, a Galway shopkeeper. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
Same for Mr Costello, a Galway shopkeeper.
"This man has sold himself to the black one", your note says, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:09
"This man has sold himself to the black one", your...
And ski-slope noses - your most geometric Irish sketches. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
And ski-slope noses - your most geometric Irish sketches.
...where you famously blagged your way into the Gate Theatre. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
...where you famously blagged your way into the Gate Theatre...
You claimed to be famous and then in Ireland became so. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
You claimed to be famous and then in Ireland became so.
You drew make-up sketches - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
You drew make-up sketches
But, again, your eyes darted to new types of faces. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
But, again, your eyes darted to new types of faces.
In the three on the right, your hand was getting freer. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
In the three on the right, your hand was getting freer.
Looking at Irish people was training you to look, to draw. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Looking at Irish people was training you to look, to draw.
So, to your mother's politics and Ireland's, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:08
So, to your mother's politics and Ireland's,
Two years after Ireland, you went here. Morocco. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
Two years after Ireland, you went here. Morocco.
No pose in your Irish drawings - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
No pose in your Irish drawings
Less than a dozen pencil lines give us the shape of his body under his jubba. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Less than a dozen pencil lines give us the shape of his body...
The diagonal of the long pipe of the big guy on the left - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:11
The diagonal of the long pipe of the big guy on the left
You were seeing real people better than ever, Orson. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
You were seeing real people better than ever, Orson.
From left to right, a dark face, what looks like glasses - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:08
From left to right, a dark face, what looks like glasses