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Richard Linklater; Zac Efron; Christian McKay; Rating: * * * * Love-smitten twentysomethings, suburban slackers, guitar-touting schlubs, scramble-suited undercover narc agents: Richard Linklater has long been the bard of dreamy, disaffected Americans.

The action in "Me and Orson Welles" takes place in 1937 during a single hectic week bookended by two moments of relative tranquillity in which a boy meets a girl .

RICHARD LINKLATER is keen to point out that his new film, "Me and Orson Welles," is not a biopic.

He swaggered, an outsize personality who filled a room figuratively decades before he did it literally.

To the rest of the world, Orson Welles was mostly seen as a towering figure, a creative innovator whose cinematic work continues to receive accolades more than 20 years after his death.

Only in the crucible of collaboration did his talents manifest themselves completely.

How does one objectively assess a film thata s been declared the best movie of all time not once, but over and over again for half a century? To list all of the honors and accolades a oeCitizen Kane,a the 1941 feature debut of Orson Welles, has received over the years would take up far more space than the list is worth.

Brooklyn-born film critic Andrew Sarris rose to prominence during his long tenure with THE VILLAGE VOICE as America's leading proponent of the auteur theory of film analysis.

There can hardly be anything left to say about Citizen Kane other than to comment on sublime moments, says Peter Bradshaw Friday, 30 October 2009 There can hardly be anything left to say about Citizen Kane, now revived on the big screen, other than to comment on sublime moments, of which the most extraordinary must still be Everett Sloane, playing ...

Wes Anderson's take on Roald Dahl is full of quirky magic - with a sly George Clooney voicing Mr Fox.

Why won't Beatrice Welles let audiences see her father's greatest movie? By Geoffrey Macnab.

HERS TO HOLD is a musical romance set against the backdrop of World War II, with Joseph Cotten as a pilot and Deanna Durbin as the girl who loves him.

Marion Davies was a movie star of the early 20th century who is better known than she might have been because of her romantic entanglement with newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.

Of all the TV theme songs that have secret lyrics - lyrics that were never used on the show - I think the best set of lyrics may be the ones for the Andy Griffith Show theme.

The TARDIS lands on Marinus, on a glass landscape surrounded by a sea of acid. Arbitan gives The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan the task to find four of the five operating keys for the Conscience of Marinus, which are hidden in unknown locations on the planet.

Duration: 1:28:22 CC TVPG Set in the late 19th century, this adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel follows the wealthy Amberson family of Indianapolis.

Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Reinvent the Wheel-Outsider Pictures 2009 Before Jackie Paris won the Downbeat new star male vocalist award in 1953, he'd already made his mark with a Nat "King" Cole-style trio on 52nd Street and toured with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton 's big band.