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Mr. Arkadin (first released in Spain, 1955), known in Britain as Confidential Report, is a French-Spanish-Swiss co-production film noir, written and directed by Orson Welles and shot in several Spanish locations, including Costa Brava, Segovia, Valladolid, and Madrid. Filming took place throughout Europe in 1954, and scenes shot outside Spain ...
Apr 17, 2006 · Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a Cold War European landscape. The film’s history is also marked by this vertigo. There are at least eight Mr. Arkadins: three radio plays, a novel, several long-lost cuts, and the controversial European ...
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Jul 6, 2024 · Then there are the many editions of the film itself, three of which were assembled by the Criterion Collection for a box set coined The Complete Mr. Arkadin. There's the "Corinth Version ...
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Apr 17, 2006 · Mr. Arkadin gives considerable prominence to the parable of the frog and the scorpion, which, in its evocation of intractable “character,” has been taken by virtually all commentators to be Welles’s true confession. As explicated by Parker Tyler, in his 1963 Film Culture essay “Orson Welles and the Big Film Cult,” the fable explains ...
Apr 18, 2006 · There are at least eight Mr. Arkadins: three radio plays, a novel, several long-lost cuts, and the controversial European release known as Confidential Report. Criterion gathered all of these elements to create this landmark box set—which also includes outtakes, behind-the-scenes footage, and a new comprehensive version of the film—at last unraveling one of cinema’s great mysteries.
Apr 18, 2006 · As a result, many versions exist, none of them definitive. The Criterion Collection is proud to collect the many faces of Mr. Arkadin into one box for the first time from the story s beginnings in radio to the novel published under Welles s name to an all-new comprehensive version of the film.
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Confidential Report: Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff. An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold-war European landscape.
