� The new Taschen picture book on Orson Welles is a major disappointment. While the book does contain many rare stills in high quality reproductions, how could Taschen reduce the importance of the greatest director in cinema history to what amounts to a footnote? ��� � The�size of this book is about half of what […]
There is a new book from Italy on Welles’s period in that country from 1947 to 1953, from Cagliostro to Othello, from Lea Padovani to Paola Mori: the book is by Alberto�Anile , and is in Italian: Web Link
There is a new book on Welles coming on January 15th; it is in French, but may be well worth acquiring even if you don’t read that language, as it has many photos and documents: the authors, Jean-Pierre Berthom� and Fran�ois Thomas, aren’t sure yet if there will be an English version.��These same authors published […]
Happy New Year! Amazon.ca has a new book listed to be released Feb. 28th, 2007: this one is only for those true devotees of the character Welles called “…a Christmas tree decorated with vices [but] the tree itself is total innocence and love.” The book is titled A Critical Edition of Two Modern Plays on […]
There is a new book on Orson Welles now available by Bart Whaley.� It looks to be chock full of thrills and interesting information and since it’s an e-book, it can be ordered and read�in the same day.� I’ve just gotten my copy, and while�I’ve only been able to glance through a few of it’s […]
What promises to be the definitive book on Orson Welles IT’S ALL TRUE will be arriving in March, 2007 from the UC California Press. Here are some advance details: ++++++++++ It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey � By Catherine L. Benamou � U.C. Berkeley Press – 416 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 39 b/w […]
Juan Cobos was the editor of the fabulous Spanish film magazine NICKEL ODEON which I had never heard of until I visited Spain, and while the magazine is now defunct,� I can safely say this is easily the best issue of any magazine I’ve�seen to date devoted to the films and work of Orson Welles.�Measuring […]
The New York Times Sunday Book Review weighs in on Simon Callow’s “Hello Americans” with an interesting piece by Gary Giddins.� Mr. Giddins makes some excellent points, and we can also be�quite thankful The Times didn’t ask Charles Higgham or David Thomson to review the book.� In fact, The Times review serves as quite a […]
Joseph McBride’s third book on Orson Welles, entitled “What Ever Happen To Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career” won’t be in bookstores until this October, but in a highly questionable move, it was reviewed today — nearly two months early — in tandem with Simon Callow’s “Hello Americans” in the Los Angeles Times. […]
Simon Callow’s second volume on Orson Welles life and career has just come out in it’s�U.S. edition.� Details on the book from Viking Press are below, followed by a review from Entertainment Weekly. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORSON WELLES Vol. Two HELLO AMERICANS By Simon Callow Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 656 pages | ISBN 9780670872565 | […]
http://www.upress.umn.edu/ Not sure why Hank’s on the cover…however, this book contains a chapter by Catherine Benamou called �Realism as Artifice and the Lure of the Real in Orson Welles�s F for Fake (1973).� It looks pretty interesting… Tony The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary’s authority […]
According to Jonathan Rosenbaum,�a book�collecting his articles and pieces on Welles should be out next summer.� Additionally, he notes that a very important French book on Welles published by Cahiers du Cinema�should be out�this November entitled “Orson Welles au Travail” (Orson Welles at Work), with an English edition�possibly forthcoming next year; the authors are Francois […]
According to Amazon.com, a new Welles book has been released today (June 30th): Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Scene by Scene (Paperback) by Randy Rasmussen � Paperback: 280 pages � Publisher: McFarland & Company (June 30, 2006) � Language: English � ISBN: 0786426039 Here’s the blurb: “Six major Welles films�Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The […]
I just received a copy of Chris Welles Feder’s book of fictional poems entitled The Movie Director and I was struck by several of the pieces which form a “wonderful portrait of Chris Welles’ father – although it’s a portrait that the author stresses is in many places entirely fictional. Below is one of the […]
Here’s a link to the latest Callow rave, from the Guardian, where the writer�observes that Callow’s tone has changed from a “certain acid” and “cattiness” to one of love: indeed�that Callow may have “fallen a little”�for Welles:: Guardian Callow review
As the title says, the second volume of Simon Callow’s biography of Welles has been released in the UK; the American release looks to be pushed back to August, according to Amazon.com; reviews are starting to be published: the Times the Telegraph The Observer I am not sure how long those links will remain active, […]
From time to time, I’ll give a look to biographies of people who played roles in the life of Welles, however small, and the most recent and interesting of these is Samantha Barbas’ The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, telling the story of that infamous gossip columnist who did her best […]
In addition to the upcoming Welles books by Callow and McBride, 2006 will see another Welles title, this time a look at six of Welles’ films from a “scene by scene” viewpoint. I have to admit I’ve been working on something like this for the site, so I’m curious to see how this compares. The […]
