Dennis Hopper makes an all-too-brief appearance in Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, but the relationship between the two filmmakers and their careers interested an Australian researcher. A paper, The Friendship Between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper: A Study of Similarities Between Two Hollywood Exiles, was recently published by Joanna Elena Batsakis at […]
Denver Film will present The Other Side of Orson Welles: A Philosophical Film Retrospective in March. The film series is geared for those unfamiliar with Welles’ work beyond his landmark Hollywood debut, Citizen Kane. The three-film retrospect begins on March 17 with the 1947 thriller The Lady from Shanghai, co-starring Welles’ then-wife Rita Hayworth. It […]
Well, 2020 has just started and there is already something for Orson Welles fans to look forward to. Peter Tonguette, who wrote the highly informative Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews with His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians back in 2007, will publish Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director this summer. Coming from University Press […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles love of Shakespeare and Cervantes is well documented, but in a new article Matthew Asprey Gear explores another author whose works fascinated the filmmaker — Joseph Conrad. In At Sea, In Port, Up the River: Orson Welles’s Conrad Adaptations for Bright Lights Film Journal., Gear notes that Welles directed Conrad’s […]
The Other Side of the Wind found itself on close to fifty Best of the Year lists in the weeks following its release in fall 2018. A year later, Orson Welles’ posthumous offering has been hailed by a dozen media outlets as among the Best Films of the 2010s. The Other Side of the […]
Film scholar Massimiliano Studer published a paper in Italy today examining how the creation of the Motion Picture Association of America changed the climate in Hollywood and led Orson Welles to explore sexuality more explicitly with The Other Side of the Wind. “I started this essay during the writing of my paper presented to a […]
By RAY KELLY Among Orson Welles’ final unrealized projects, perhaps none came closer to fruition than The Cradle Will Rock. The autobiographical film would have been a retelling of Welles’ fabled 1937 Federal Theatre Project production of the controversial Marc Blitzstein musical on the labor movement. The government pulled support for the left-wing play before […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Marco Vanelli, looks at religious themes in the film. Wellesnet would like to thank Mr. Vanelli for his generosity in allowing […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film critic Alessandro Aniballi looks at the film and Welles’ treatment of death.) D for Death By ALESSANDRO ANIBALLI The Other Side of […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Massimiliano Studer, co-founder of Formacinema, and author of Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles, looks […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film scholar Alberto Anile offers his views on the merits and compromises of the finished film.) Merits and compromises of a reconstruction […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. Cabiria has kindly allowed us to run English translations of several essays. In this installment, Wellesnet’s Ray Kelly shares his thoughts.) Reflections on the […]
The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of the release of The Other of the Wind. Welles’ long-unfinished 1970s film was completed last year by producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza, executive producer Peter Bogdanovich and editor Bob Murawski. […]
By NICOLAS CICCONE Orson Welles’s last completed film, The Other Side of the Wind, began as a story set not near Hollywood in the U.S., but instead around the bullfighting rings of Spain. Welles largely outlined this version of the story in a 1963 Albert Maysles film Orson Welles in Spain, which can be found […]
By RAY KELLY Herman J. Mankiewicz co-wrote Citizen Kane and his kid brother, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, scripted and directed All About Eve — not too shabby for the sons of a school teacher and seamstress who left Germany for the United States shortly before the start of the 20th century. Sydney Ladensohn Stern — author […]
Orson Welles Over Europe — the documentary hosted and written by Simon Callow a decade ago — will be rebroadcast by BBC Four on Wednesday, September 25, and then available on BBC i-player. The nearly hour-long documentary originally aired on December 27, 2009 and was rebroadcast only a few times thereafter. “It got rather lost […]
Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) weighed in on The Other Side of the Wind in a nearly five-minute YouTube video from Trailers From Hell. Dante is well-versed in the project having been a friend of the late cinematographer Gary Graver and worked with The Other Side of the Wind actor Joseph McBride (Mr. Pister) […]
Oscar-nominated director and classic film enthusiast Peter Bogdanovich has recently uploaded more than four dozen five-minute video shorts to YouTube touting various directors, actors and films under the banner Peter Bogdanovich Recommends. Naturally, there is a Peter Bogdanovich Recommends: Orson Welles short, which is with illustrated with scenes from Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The […]
By RAY KELLY The RKO corporate archive Welles material that was presumed lost in the sale to Turner has now been restored in a workable digital version and should be available online soon, Wellesnet has learned. Wellesnet has reached out to WarnerMedia, the current rights holder, for further details. Orson Welles was signed by RKO […]
The French newspaper Le Monde has published an update on the hunt for Orson Welles’ fabled original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons. Le Monde interviewed Josh Grossberg, who began his quest for the lost Ambersons footage when he was a 21-year-old film student at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1995 — and not given up. […]
