(Especially for the season, an old post on one of my favorite--and easily the strangest--of all Xmas films)
The mysterious Mr. Arkadin
(Revised; warning, story discussed in close detail)
The mysterious Mr. Arkadin
(Revised; warning, story discussed in close detail)
Wow--do I really want to do this? Dip my toe into the murky history of Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955), the film famously taken from his control, re-edited, eventually released in seven different versions? A picture every bit as baroque in the viewing as it is in its making? I say seven versions, but there are suggestions that "an infinite number of Mr. Arkadins" is possible, so--