Push to finish Welles's final film

08 May 2015 - 02:21 By Tymon Smith

Wednesday marked the centenary of the birth of director Orson Welles, whose first movie, Citizen Kane, still tops many "best films of all time" lists. With Welles's Chimes at Midnight getting a re-release in the US later this year, there's a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $2-million to finish his unreleased final film, The Other Side of the Wind, a movie about filmmaking, starring Dennis Hopper and John Huston.Popular for years with readers looking for spiritual advice and guidance, Kahlil Gibran's book of poems and musings, The Prophet, has been adapted into an animated film. It features the voice talents of Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek.If you're in Johannesburg and you haven't yet made plans for what to do with your mother on Sunday, take her to a Mother's Day screening of Pedro Almodovar's classic All About My Mother at 3pm at The Bioscope, thebioscope.co.zaAlso openingChild 44Tom Rob Smith's bestseller has been turned into an indigestible meal of a film, full of actors speaking English with hyeavy Ryussian accyents. Peter Bradshaw, theguardian.co.ukLullabyThe subject of assisted suicide should enlighten and inspire debate. Instead, the film feels simultaneously superficial and overbearing. Christy Lemire, rogerebert.comUnfinished BusinessIt's not impossible to mix sentimentality, raunch, corporate games-manship and the G-8 Summit in a comedy, but this one doesn't pull it off. Alonso Duralde, thewrap.comPaul Blart: Mall Cop 2Nobody was expecting much, but did it have to be this unimaginative? Sandy Schaefer, screenrant.comDo you believe?Features enough melodramatic plot developments and homilies to fuel a religious soap opera. Frank Scheck, hollywoodreporter.com..

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