Wellesnet is pleased to be able to share this exclusive report from Chris Welles Feder, who attended the New York premiere and after party of Richard Linklater’s new movie, Me and Orson Welles, due to the efforts of your obedient servant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ME AND ORSON WELLES premiere By Chris Welles Feder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The premiere was […]
Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles had its New York City premiere on November 23, and the next day, on November 24, there was a dedication by Chris Welles Feder and Christian McKay of a plaque in memory of Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre which once stood at the site of the current building which now […]
Many thanks to Paul Condon of Dublin, Ireland for alerting us to the retrospective of Orson Welles films that will be screening in Dublin this month under the auspices of The Irish Film Institute. Chimes at Midnight is one of only three Welles’ movies that will not be shown, the others being Othello and Filming […]
Wellesnet is co-sponsoring Chris Welles Feder’s first appearance for her intimate new book about Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow at the Rafael Theatre, in San Rafael on Monday November 2. Ms. Welles-Feder has long been a supporter of Wellesnet and we do return those duties back to her as are right fit… The book […]
When you have a great figure of myth like Don Quixote, like Falstaff, it is a silhouette against the sky of all time… —Orson Welles to Juan Cobos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A beautifully written and moving memoir which should have a most special place in the extraordinary world of Orson Welles. –Peter Bogdanovich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Orson Welles’s eldest […]
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 […]
On Thursday July 30 2009 The Dax Foundation is hosting a rare screening of Orson Welles masterpiece Chimes at Midnight at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. The Dax Foundation has provided Wellesnet with a limited number of tickets for this very special showing, which will be introduced by Dave Weisman, the executive director of the […]
I’ve created a new Wellesnet page on FaceBook and everyone who reads Wellesnet is encouraged to visit it to see pictures, photos, posters, drawings, memos and other material related to the work and career of Orson Welles. To start things off I have created a gallery of some of my own favorite movie posters from […]
Simon Callow had mentioned some time ago that he originally hoped to finish the third volume of his massive biography on Orson Welles by his 60th birthday. So I thought that today, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, I’d take the opportunity to wish him a very happy birthday on behalf of everyone at […]
In honor of Sir John Falstaff.… —Christopher Lee *** Queen Elizabeth II of England has bestowed Knighthood honors on one of my very favorite actors, SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE, who is well known to Wellesnet readers for appearing in Orson Welles’s never finished television movie Moby Dick-Rehearsed. Lee was also was featured in Anthony Shaffer’s The […]
Orson Welles: Genius and Innovator of the American Cinema is a short documentary written and directed by a 14-year old student, David La Rosa, as part of the National History Day Competition. It won third place out of all the finalists from New York State and can be viewed on YouTube HERE. I found it […]
Kudos to Jack Marshall, the artistic director of The American Century Theater for bringing yet a third Orson Welles production back to the boards, after previously reviving Welles’s Moby Dick-Rehearshed (twice!) and Marc Blizstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. Since The American Century Theater concentrates on 20th Century American playwrights, it is too bad that precludes […]
I recently received a letter from a 7th grade student in Mass. who asked me a series of interesting questions about Orson Welles. By a strange coincidence, I had just been talking with Joseph McBride about the upcoming group of younger Welles scholars. In any event, I was quite impressed by the intelligence of the […]
The recent showing of Stefan Drossler’s rare “Unknown Welles” material at The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, brought out a large contingent of Bay area film scholars, including Joseph McBride, the author of many books on Welles, Tom Luddy, the former director of The San Francisco Film Festival, and current director of The Telluride Film […]
This weekend, the Pacific Film Archive will be hosting Stefan Drosseler of the Munich Film Museum, who will be presenting two shows of his rare UNKNOWN ORSON WELLES material. Needless to say, this will be a long overdue program to arrive in the Bay area, for which film fans and Welles scholars can give thanks […]
Ray Kelly, our Wellesnet man in Cambridge sends along this exclusive report on Stefan Drossler’s presentation of The Unknown Orson Welles on December 1, 2008 at the Harvard Film Archive
The upcoming Harvard Film archive’s mini retrospective of Orson Welles films has generated several interesting articles in the local Boston-Cambridge press; below are links for them. Unfortunately, Ed Symkus, writing in The Walpole Times mars his story with the following absurd paragraph: Although Welles is one of the most recognized and admired names in cinema […]
Bob Downing has sent along information about a very interesting Orson Welles film series that will be screening in August at Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum. It will feature all three films Orson Welles directed in the decade of the sixties: The Trial, Falstaff and The Immortal Story. If you are in the Seattle area, I’d […]
Director and Orson Welles authority, Peter Bogdanovich will be in residence this weekend at San Francisco’s historic movie palace, The Castro Theater, where he will be introducing a mini-retrospective of his films. Here is a link to the schedule of Mr. Bogdanovich’s in-person appearances. The Bogdanovich movies scheduled to be shown, include: Targets, The Last […]
The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California is presenting a nearly complete retrospective of films directed by Orson Welles, including rare screenings of Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story. Unfortunately, these two films will be shown in 16mm versions. Also, there will be no rare material from the Munich archive, and quite sadly, no […]
