“My Name is Orson Welles,” an upcoming three-month event organized by Cinematheque francaise in Paris, will screen scores of Wellesian films and television programs beginning with 1934’s “The Hearts of Age” and concluding with the posthumously completed “The Other Side of the Wind.”
Nearly 70 years after Orson Welles began shooting “Don Quixote,” elements from the legendary film are being eyed for a proper assembly and release.
For more than 40 years, film editor Mauro Bonanni had been in possession of some 65,000 feet, or more than 12 hours, of the “Don Quixote” negative.
Fifty years after Orson Welles finished shooting “Don Quixote” and 30 years since the release of the Jesus Franco cut, Welles’ vision of Cervantes’ knight errant remains out of reach.
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.