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Well the comprehensive version has the most footage, but I think all 3 versions (including Confidential Report) are good and worth watching.
With there being three versions, I'm debating on which one to go with. Is there any kind of agreement on the best/definitive version? Is it worth it to watch all three?
Jul 9, 2021 · In Mr. Arkadin, he’s very much alive, but claims he can’t remember anything prior to 1927. But there are differences. Kane begins with a “NO TRESPASSING” sign outside Kane’s Florida estate, Xanadu, and slowly zooms in to show off the main character dropping a snow globe as he dies.
Jul 6, 2024 · Mr. Arkadin, directed by and starring Orson Welles, is a gripping mystery thriller. The plot centers on Guy Van Stratten, an American smuggler, who is tasked by the enigmatic billionaire...
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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.
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Apr 17, 2006 · The solipsistic puppet theater that is Mr. Arkadin projects a tawdry totalitarianism—Welles’s future wife plays the monster’s adoring daughter—and its collapse. In Mr. Arkadin, Welles reconstitutes the hall of mirrors shattered in The Lady from Shanghai, the better to reflect on . . . himself.
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Nov 5, 2000 · These masks can be physical, metaphorical or both; Mr. Arkadin (1955), a French/Spanish production that Welles shot during his forced exile from the United States, falls into the third group. Orson Welles’ films are full of masks and false doubles; they’re always morally ambiguous.
