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Mr Akradin: Corinth Version or Comprehensive Version? Hi there! I was looking to check this movie out and I noticed that there are two different versions of this film on the criterion channel. I know that a lot of Welles’s movies are known to be hacked to bits by the studios and stuff, and so there are multiple versions of some of his pictures.
One is called Confidential Report, and one is called Mr. Arkadin. Any insight on the difference between the two versions and which one is considered definitive would be appreciated. Thanks!
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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. 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 ...
- Gregory Arkadin
Apr 17, 2006 · The Complete “Mr. Arkadin” is an attempt to collect and present the various versions of the film in as understandable a format as possible, including the Corinth, Confidential Report, and a newly created “comprehensive version,” which pieces together elements from all the others. The Corinth print was not discovered until 1960, when ...
Jul 10, 2016 · Mr Arkadin, like so many Welles titles, remains a stubbornly alive work, forever open to re-interpretation and debates on the real meaning of a “director’s cut”.
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Apr 17, 2006 · A nother movie, another cause célèbre: Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin has been dismissed as a disaster and hailed as a masterpiece. In 1958, Cahiers du cinéma declared it one of the twelve greatest films ever made—unaware that its intricate series of flashbacks had been reedited and “normalized,” or ruined, for its French release by producer Louis Dolivet.
