Welles shooting Citizen Kane (1941)
We can thank Orson Welles for this pithy, and all too true comment on commercial cinema:
“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.”
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Orson Welles on Commercial Filmmaking
Thursday, September 15th, 2011About the Author
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ryan Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is an internationally recognized scholar and writer of film history, theory and criticism. He is the author of numerous books and more than 70 articles on film and appears regularly in national media outlets discussing film and culture trends. Frame by Frame is a collection of his thoughts on a number of those topics. To contact Prof. Dixon for an interview, reach him at 402.472.6064 or wdixon1@unl.edu.
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