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The Eyes of Orson Welles

PEN SCRATCHES The lens you liked to use most,the 18.5, was a king lens, you could say

PEN SCRATCHES The lens you liked to use most,
the 18.5, was a king lens, you could say

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The lens you liked to use most, the 18.5, was a king lens, you could say.
Duration
13 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:11
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.
NARRATOR: You slung it low, of course, to make foreground people look massive. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
NARRATOR: You slung it low, of course, to make foreground pe...
Cribb'd, confined, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Cribb'd, confined,
NARRATOR: To make patterns between near and far. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
NARRATOR: To make patterns between near and far.
Beyond visual things, your king men are lawmakers and lawbreakers. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Beyond visual things, your king men are lawmakers and lawbre...
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.