Search: Starring Orson Welles

There is no doubt this is kitschy... still, at least the book is treated seriously, some of Collinson's framing is memorable and the central 'who's-doing-it' conundrum holds firm

The story is wonderfully told, and it absorbs the viewer completely.

All the time, in between the cape twirling, sly winking and knowing nods, Welles conjures up a central debate - if you look at something and think it is a masterpiece, why is the fake less valuable?

Restricted by budget, and talky and cumbersome in places but bears flashes of brilliance that remind you just who is in control of the action.

Described in this film as the "patron saint of independent filmmakers" and with his work marked by ambition and a desire to push boundaries, it's a shame that this documentary about Orson Welles by Chuck Workman is, well, so workman-like.

There’s no denying that the film’s polemical message is still relevant today, but it’s an old argument, didactically constructed.

Welles – who felt this was the best movie he ever made – evokes the feeling of menacing, disorientating bureaucracy, of the senselessness of our existence, of inexplicable and inescapable threat.

The documentary lifts the various stones around the movie's creation and lets us have a good look at the monsters hiding underneath Welles's barely watchable, misogynistic hate parade.

Lime is one of the cinema’s greatest baddies.

The performers all do a decent job but one of the movie's major flaws is the awful assortment of accents flying around.