By RAY KELLY Beatrice Welles’ decision to put more than 70 items belonging to her late father, Orson Welles, on the auction block later this month drew national attention when it was announced Monday. Most of the items were found in two trunks, which had been left unopened for nearly 50 years. She detailed the […]
A full year before the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles’ birth, the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque has something special planned for fans of the late director. TIFF Cinematheque will feature a special screening of the recently rediscovered silent footage of Too Much Johnson, as part of a mini-retrospective entitled Orson Welles: Lost & Found […]
An English translation of Alberto Anile’s book Orson Welles in Italy is available from Indiana University Press. Translated by Marcus Perryman, the book looks at Welles’ trek to Italy in 1947 to restart his career. “Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles’ Othello, last seen in U.S. theaters in 1992, will be re-released to cinemas this spring. Carlotta Films has acquired the theatrical rights to Othello in the United States and France. A new digitally restored release of the 1992 “restored” version commissioned by the late director’s youngest daughter, Beatrice Welles, will […]
Producer Michael Dawson brought a restored version of Orson Welles’ “Othello” to movie-goers in 1992. He has been actively working with Woodstock Celebrates Inc. to organize a proper 100th birthday celebration honoring Welles’ legacy in 2015. Dawson took time to discuss the 1992 restoration and future Welles projects with Wellesnet’s Mike Teal. By MIKE TEAL […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH I have recently been talking with Michael Dawson, the producer of the 1992 restored version of Othello, who explained some of the many problems he encountered while working on the restoration of the film. The interview will be published shortly on Wellesnet’s main page, and hopefully may led to a three-DVD reissue […]
There was a report on Wellesnet in August of last year, in connection with the Dax Foundation screening of Falstaff, that Beatrice Welles had lost the rights to Othello. I recently spoke with a representative of The Estate of Orson Welles who called to tell me that this information was in error and that Beatrice […]
Here is Orson Welles witty Foreword to Micheál Mac Liammóir’s diary of the making of Othello, Put Money in thy Purse, first published in 1952 by Methuen in London. Photos of Welles and Mac Liammóir from Othello along with shots of the locations Welles used in Morocco can be seen at the Wellesnet Facebook page […]
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 […]
Wellesnet members Craig Weinstein and Leigh Gordon attended the Dax Foundation screening of Falstaff on July 30th and provided some interesting news about the event. Leigh tells me that besides the original promotional material from Falstaff, the Dax Foundation also had the Academy Award Orson Welles won for Citizen Kane on display. You can see […]
Joseph McBride has sent along this link to a delightful interview with Betsy Blair, recorded when she appeared at The London Review Bookshop in 2005 to talk about her autobiography, The Memory of All That. Ms. Blair candidly tells of how Welles called and asked her to play Desdemona, and how she learned only after […]
