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The Eyes of Orson Welles

Your background was privileged, but on the Baltic you met migrantsand really looked at...

Your background was privileged, but on the Baltic you met migrants
and really looked at them

Full Transcript

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Your background was privileged,
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but on the Baltic you met migrants and really looked at them.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:25
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 later became fascinated by ageing, sagging faces. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
You later became fascinated by ageing, sagging faces.
Aged just 23, in the play Heartbreak House, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
Aged just 23, in the play Heartbreak House,
Were you in a hurry to get old, Orson? Did youth bore you? - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
Were you in a hurry to get old, Orson? Did youth bore you?
You wrote, "Our very landing was dramatic... - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
You wrote, "Our very landing was dramatic...
Men and women got on their knees, weeping for joy. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
Men and women got on their knees, weeping for joy.
"It's almost beyond belief that two days' journeying - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:20
"It's almost beyond belief that two days' jou...
The words you used about the Irish were rich indeed. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
The words you used about the Irish were rich indeed.
You wrote, "In 16 short years of living, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:13
You wrote, "In 16 short years of living,
You bought a donkey - Sidheog - and cart and roughed it. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
You bought a donkey - Sidheog - and cart and roughed it.
You wrote, "I curled up under the cart and fell asleep". - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:05
You wrote, "I curled up under the cart and fell asleep&...
"There were nights too, spent in cottages, wakes, weddings and matchmakings. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
"There were nights too, spent in cottages, wakes, weddi...
"My week with the band of gypsies, my mountain climbs, - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:12
"My week with the band of gypsies, my mountain climbs,
You spoke of, "these people who produced and flourished in Tutankhamun's time". - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:07
You spoke of, "these people who produced and flourished...
You painted hundreds of landscapes here, but destroyed them. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:06
You painted hundreds of landscapes here, but destroyed them.
It was the people and faces that you preferred. - The Eyes of Orson Welles 00:04
It was the people and faces that you preferred.
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.