A new Blu-ray release of “Mr. Arkadin” with three different cuts of the film has been released in Germany. It is coded as a Region B disc.
The release comes months after the Criterion Collection listed its similar DVD set as out of print.
Maestro Bruno Fontaine and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra brought the music of the Orson Welles’ film Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) to life at a recent performance in Paris. Fontaine, an arranger and composer in his own right, has a passion — and ear — for lost movie scores, often the result of the […]
A French Blu-ray release of Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) has drawn a favorable, if somewhat belated, notice from DVD Beaver. The website has done an in-depth review of Carlotta’s Blu-ray Dossier Secret A.K.A. Mr. Arkadin, which first arrived on shelves back in July 2015. The review of the Region B release offers a detailed comparison […]
Welles made a movie that wasn’t meant to be anything more than a big hit with audiences looking for a good time.
Harry Lime was first depicted by Orson Welles in “The Third Man.”
The discs are available from Blu-ray.com.
Parrondo won two Academy Awards.
Acclaimed Spanish actress Amparo Rivelles died on November 7 in her native Madrid. She was 88. Rivelles portrayed Baroness Nagel in the Spanish version of Orson Welles’ 1955 film “Mr. Arkadin.” In other versions of the movie, the role of Baroness Nagel was played by Suzanne Flon. She also appeared as herself in “Orson Welles […]
By MATTHEW ASPREY GEAR “But this way ain’t out, mister! That way!” – Jakob Zouk Orson Welles’ Mr Arkadin (1955) is an international narrative set mostly in Western Europe but also in Mexico City, Acapulco, and Tangiers. Many of the locations were convincingly faked. Welles shot most of Arkadin in Spain, on the French Riviera, […]
Harper Collins has come out with a trade paperback edition of the novelization of Orson Welles’s movie Mr. Arkadin, which contains a new Foreword by John Baxter. Jonathan Rosenbaum has written an essay about the book for the Barnes and Noble website, noting that “Baxter’s Foreword, which starts off quite reasonably, winds up with the […]
“A stranger staggers to his death… But his secret does not die with him!” So begins the elusive trailer for Orson Welles MR. ARKADIN Thanks to Joe Dante and his exciting new online site, TRAILERS FROM HELL, it can be viewed here: http://www.trailersfromhell.com/index.php?tid=69 Joe Dante began his career in the sixties as a writer for Castle […]
Producer Greg Boozell has sent along this link for Wellesnet viewers to preview a very informative interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum condcted by Mara Tapp, which concentrates on four of Orson Welles lesser viewed films: MR. ARKADIN, DON QUIXOTE, FALSTAFF and F FOR FAKE. It also goes into some detail about Welles pioneering work with Afro-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, which really seems to be the smoking […]
Here is a complete transcript of the radio script Orson Welles wrote for what is essentially the first draft of Mr. Arkadin. It was heard as part of the Harry Alan Towers produced radio show The Lives of Harry Lime.
Since Mr. Arkadin didn’t open in America until 1962, it’s not surprising that most of the U. S. press didn’t review it until then (if at all), but strangely Variety also missed the boat, failing to review the film on it’s European release. However, they made up for their mistake with this rather perceptive review, […]
ORSON WELLES on MR. ARKADIN It is quite remarkable that other than Peter Bogdanovichs indispensable interview book, This Is Orson Welles, there were so few important English language interviews done with Welles during his lifetime. Admittedly, Welles was often not on American soil when a film like Mr. Arkadin came out, but it […]
I received my review copy of the Criterion Complete Mr. Arkadin set last week, and after a cursory walkthrough, I can say its pretty much everything we hoped it would be. While it isnt absolutely Complete (something that has to be a bit of a gag on their part, given the project at hand here), […]
Sent to me today was this rather exciting bit of news regarding the Italian TV channel RAI, which is planning a Mr. Arkadin fest on April 1; the translation from their Web site, as provided to me: “Among the films completed by Orson Welles, this is certainly the work that’s presented in the largest number […]
As posted in several places, not the least of which is the Wellesnet message board, here are the official specs of the upcoming Arkadin Criterion DVD set: SPECIAL EDITION THREE-DISC SET FEATURES – New, restored high-definition digital transfers of three versions of the film: the Corinth Verion, Confidential Report, and a new Comprehensive Version – […]
Still no official word on this via Criterion’s site that I could find, but multiple sources on the web have listed preliminary info about this worst-kept secret in Welles DVDs. The set will be three discs, and retail for $49.95, which will be much cheaper at several online vendors. Frankly, I’m surprised they’re going the […]
