At the Movie Theatre on this New Year’s Eve, 2009 Gregorian…
Thursday, December 31st, 2009© A.J. Malouin 2009
The best film to see in The Great Lakes Basin this New Year’s Eve is, by all accounts of our friends who have seen it, “Me and Orson Welles.”
This film tells the story of Orson Welles’ mounting of “Julius Caesar” at the Mercury Theater, in 1937. A young Orson Welles and an even younger Richard Samuels meet and collaborate, then clash over a girl, as both of them stumble and stutter through their early experiences with The Theatre. Both of them know what they want, and the differences make for riveting, entertaining drama. The Film Snob rates “Me and Orson Welles” a 6 — and everyone he knows has rated it even higher. (See our side-bar page “How We Rate Movies” for information on our Rating System.)
The best film The Film Snob has seen in-theatre in some time is “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans.” (more…)