Kino has taken some imperfect yet heroic steps to restoring Orson Welles’s The Stranger in all its brilliant, subversive grandeur.
Without a doubt, this 2011 edition was the film festival experience of the year for me.
Welles’s feverish, politically uneasy noir remains an outstanding achievement
Man’s Castle is my second attempt at understanding Borzage after being defeated by History Is Made at Night.
Orson Welles’s The Stranger is the comeuppance that Hollywood felt he deserved for being such an arrogant genius.
Welles’s underrated third effort gets no love in this DVD version, but it’s still a virtuosic, fascinating work.
Man’s Castle is harsh-spirited, episodic, in a rage over the ghastly injustices of economic privation.