Spanish screenwriter Agustín Sánchez Vidal has just published Quijote Welles, a novel which delves into Orson Welles’ love of both Spain and the Cervante’s character Don Quixote. The 668-page novel utilizes interviews, diaries, confessions and even fragments of the Don Quixote script. Vidal, a professor of Film History at the University of Zaragoza, is the […]
A planned production of Adapting Don Quixote is being billed as the world’s first “supercut-opera,” as it will take previous adaptations — from theater, opera, films and song — and build a new work. In a narrative driven by Orson Welles’ attempt to bring Don Quixote to the screen, the audience will experience three completely […]
Italian public television’s RAI 3 will pay tribute to Orson Welles in the days leading up to the 75th annual Venice Film Festival and world premiere of his recently completed movie The Other Side of the Wind. The broadcast programming, except a showing of The Magnificent Ambersons, focuses chiefly on Welles’ connection to Italy and his many […]
With decades of legal battles over, the negative for Orson Welles’ Don Quixote is in the hands of Oja Kodar.
The National Cinema Museum in Turin has a collection of Orson Welles papers that span the period from 1960 through 1976.
He was the son of noted Spanish-Mexican director Luis Buñuel.
“Take My Time” from Mark Stoermer, the bassist for The Killers.
The respected film scholar was Welles’ personal assistant on the film.
Chapters on It’s All True and Don Quixote are the result of what Müller describes as intensive research in archives.
The fate of “Don Quixote” remains uncertain.
The Don Quixote workprint will be screened in Paris later this month.
Welles’ youngest daughter fielded online questions.
It was screened at the Cinémathèque Française on June 29, 2015.
Cult filmmaker Jess Franco, director of more than 180 films, died today in Málaga,Spain, at the age of 82. Franco made his feature directing debut with “We Are 18 Years Old” in 1959. His final film, “Al Pereira Vs The Alligator Women,” opened last month in Spain. His other films include “Necronomicon,” (1967), “Count Dracula” […]
By RAY KELLY Welles scholars now have access to the exciting additions to the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan. The first collection, “The Orson Welles – Chris Welles Feder Collection,” is a gift from Welles’ eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. It includes photographs of the family and letters from Welles to his […]
Ciro Giorgini has written to let us know that his fine documentary Rosabella is now available on DVD, with new interviews with Elsa Martinelli and Suzanne Cloutier as extras. It can be ordered from Minimum Fax in Italy For 19. Euros, and comes with the book Orson Welles: Interviews on the art of the Cinema […]
Màscares (Masks) Masks directed by Elisabet Cabeza and Welles’s scholar Esteve Riambau, will screen at at the San Sebastian Film festival in the “New Directors” section on September 22, 23 and 24. Anyone in Spain who sees it is encouraged to send us a report. You can see the trailer, in Spanish HERE. The program […]
Here lies the noble fearless knight, Whose valor rose to such a height; When Death at last did strike him down, His was the victory and renown. He reck’d the world of little prize, And was a bugbear in men’s eyes; But had the fortune in his age To live a fool and die a […]
To celebrate Gary Graver’s wonderful new memoir, Making Movies with ORSON WELLES, I thought I’d offer a sample of the delights it has to offer. To start, here is the text for an incredibly detailed memo Welles wrote to Gary Graver which appears to have been written around 1972, when Welles was in the midst […]
Juan Cobos recently sent me his revised article about Orson Welles and the making of Don Quixote, exclusively for the readers of Wellesnet, and Lucy has begun translating it into English on the messageboard. In the meantime, for all of our Spanish language readers in Spain, Mexico and all of the Americas, I thought I […]
