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‘Orson Welles in Norwich’ coming to Sky’s ‘Urban Myths’

Britain’s Sky Arts announced this week a fourth season of its popular Urban Myths series for 2020 and one of the four short films will center on Orson Welles. Urban Myths: Orson Welles in Norwich will star BAFTA-winner Robbie Coltrane, OBE as Welles. According to a summary provided by Sky: Welles in 1972 was working on […]

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‘Other Side of the Wind’ documentarian Morgan Neville: My North Star was ‘F for Fake’

By RAY KELLY Oscar winning documentarian Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor) is a self-professed Orson Welles fanatic, and the opportunity to explore a misunderstood chapter in the late filmmaker’s life proved hard to resist They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead offers an insightful and highly entertaining look into The […]

Brazil documentary fest to mark Orson Welles’ 100th

Cinemateca Brasileira will pay tribute to Orson Welles in April as one of many events worldwide marking the centennial of the late filmmaker’s birth. The annual  It’s All True  Festival, named after Orson Welles’ first documentary, the unfinished It’s All True, runs April 9-19  in São Paulo and April 10-19 in Rio de Janeiro. “Three celebrations […]

‘F for Fake’ Blu-ray due out in October from Criterion

UPDATED: Orson Welles’ 1975 appearance on NBC’s Tomorrow with Tom Snyder will also be included in the Criterion set. According to the Paley Center, Welles discussed opening night of “The Cradle Will Rock”; why he no longer lives in the United States; his outsider status; why he is hated by some people; his career as […]

Henry Jaglom champions ‘F for Fake’ in ‘Best Film You’ve Never Seen’

While much attention has been focused on “My Lunches With Orson,” Peter Biskind’s upcoming book based on taped conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles, Jaglom has more to say about his friend in a new book “The Best Film You’ve Never Seen.” Jaglom is one of 35 film directors interviewed by Chicago Sun-Times editor […]

Orson Welles vs. Ingmar Bergman

While looking through the lavish and quite fabulous new Taschen book, THE INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES, edited by Paul Duncan, I was astonished to see how much of Bergman’s career outside of his movies I was totally unaware of. I daresay that most people in America probably know as little about Bergman’s work on the Swedish […]