Orson Welles

The Orson Welles Story

The Orson Welles Story, an excellent BBC documentary from the 1980s.

The Complete Citizen Kane

The Complete Citizen Kane, another excellent BBC documentary.

Below is an interesting article on Welles' views of Ireland and the Irish from the Irish Times and based on a book of conversations conducted with Welles by Henry Jaglom.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/the-ireland-of-orson-welles-was-inhabited-by-mean-men-and-wanton-women-1.1476257

War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
The Complete War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938.

Welles' Apology

Welles' apology for scaring the nation.

Further Reading

David Thomson         The Moment of Psycho (Basic Books, 2011)

                                   Biographical Dictionary of Film (Little Brown, 4^th Edition, 2003.)

                                        Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (Abacus, 1997)

Patrick Gilligan          Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (John Wiley, 2004)

Andrew Sarris           American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 (Da Capo Press, 1996)  

Joseph McBride         Searching for John Ford (Faber & Faber, 2004)

Simon Callow             The Road to Xanadu (Vintage, 1996)

Siegfried Kracauer   From Caligari to Hitler (Princeton, 2nd Edition 2004)

Lotte Eisner               The Haunted Screen (University of California, 1992)

Websites

Senses of Cinema

http://sensesofcinema.com/

Paul Schrader "Notes on Film Noir"

http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic1069028.files/Schrader%20on%20Notes%20on%20Film%20Noir.pdf

Internet Movie Database

http://www.imdb.com/ 

Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/  

The British Film Institute

 http://www.bfi.org.uk/

Mubi Online Cinema

http://mubi.com/