Orson Welles

Leaving aside some dumb questions, such as asking what age of the past Welles would have liked to live in, this still gives the filmmaker a chance to offer some reflections on the character of cinema, the death of theatre (as filled with great actors and directors, but not plays), and the right-wing drift of Californian politics (mentioning that a few years ago Ronald Reagan tried for a part in a movie as President of the United States, but was turned down on the grounds of not being the type).