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    Some Kind of Genius

    5/5Film critic David Thomson explores Orson Welles's complicated relationship with failure.

    F for Fake

    4/5Sarah Churchwell discusses film-maker Orson Welles's capacity for self-mythologising.

    Why Citizen Kane Matters

    3/5Film critic Peter Bradshaw gives his personal take on Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane.

    He that Plays the King

    2/5Exploring Orson Welles's Shaksepeare film trilogy: Macbeth, Othello and Chimes at Midnight

    Boy Wonder

    1/5Simon Callow tracks Orson Welles's transformation from schoolboy to prodigy.