by Brian Darr

Orson Welles loved a good mystery. Some of his greatest films, from Citizen Kane  to Touch of Evil  to F For Fake , use conventions of that literary and film genre to draw his audience into their labyrinthine worlds. An intensely private man, he also frequently employed his incomparable skills as raconteur to obfuscate the truths about his own life, creating mysteries that each new biographer or reader must try to unravel if he or she wants to understand more about Welles than he intended to to reveal.  Continue reading →