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Watch: Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary – the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles’s life was magical: a musical prodigy at age 10, a director of Shakespeare at 14, a painter at 16, a star of stage and radio at 20, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Rita Hayworth. His work was similarly extraordinary, most notably Citizen Kane, (considered by many to be the most important movie ever made), created by Welles when he was only 25. In the years following Citizen Kane, Welles’s career continued to change as he made film after film (some never finished, many dismissed) and acted in other projects often to earn money in order to keep making his own films. Magician features scenes from almost every existing Welles film, from Hearts of Age, (which he made in a day when he was only 18 years old) to rarely-seen clips from his final unfinished works like The Other Side of the Dream, The Deep, and Don Quixote, as well as his television and commercial work..
Plot: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
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I really enjoyed this doc
I was moved to review this because the one review on this page completely tore it apart. The way the reviewer wrote made me think that this person had an intense personal dislike of Chuck Workman, for some reason.

So, I thought I’d look at this reviewers other reviews. And guess what? Almost all porn.

So, let’s just stick to the subject at hand: Orson Welles.

I first became aware of Welles when I was taking a film class in college. “Citizen Kane” amazed me, not surprisingly.

Welles says, in “Magician,” that Gregg Toland, the great cinematographer, came to Welles and said that he (Toland) wanted very much to work with Welles on “Kane.” Welles said, “Why? I’ve never directed a film before.” And Toland said, “That’s why.”

It was uncharted. Anything was possible. And, indeed, it was.

I would encourage any Welles fan to see this. It was well worth it.

Citizen Orson
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles celebrates the centenary of the birth of the legendary Actor, Director, Raconteur and Foodie. The documentary has no narration, it just uses clips from Welles movies, footage from interviews and Welles himself ends up narrating his life through anecdotes and stories he told throughout his career.

The problem is if you want to know about the man just watch the Arena documentary from the BBC that was made a few years before he died where you get Orson Welles, his life and career from the big man himself, many clips of which are used here.

Magician feels like a tepid rundown of his career. There are some major contributors such as Steven Spielberg but the only interesting aspect I took from this is a man who became a low budget independent film-maker, forever looking to raise money so he could complete the many films he had in production at any one time, some of them going on for years, many never completed.

Orson Welles was an important figure in cinematic history, this documentary is a starter not the main course.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 31 min (91 min), 1 hr 34 min (94 min) (theatrical)
Budget 813505
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director Chuck Workman
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Actors Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Christopher Welles
Country United States
Awards 2 nominations
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