The Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut, where Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre staged the ill-fated Too Much Johnson in 1938, has been reborn as the Legacy Theatre.
Part of the Dupont Company films and commercials collection, A Gift of Harvest was filmed throughout 1978-79 and released in 1981.
Daron Hagen’s filmed opera, “Orson Rehearsed,” has been playing at movie festivals around the world and has won laurels.
Veteran critic Todd McCarthy says Welles will “have to suffer a few more slings and arrows flung by those who will automatically buy into the view that he had nothing to do with the writing of ‘Citizen Kane’.”
With the 82nd anniversary of the infamous radio broadcast fast approaching, here are 10 online links worth checking out.
Noted author Harlan Lebo has provided Orson Welles fans with something special as the 80th anniversary of “Citizen Kane” nears — a new transcript of the landmark film.
Matthew Asprey Gear, author of “At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City,” will offer a 12-week online course for serious fans of the late filmmaker.
Network, which released the DVD “Orson Welles Great Mysteries Volume 1” in the United Kingdom last year, will release the second and final volume on October 26. Produced by Anglia Television, the 25-minute long episodes were originally broadcast by Britain’s ITV between September 1973 and February 1974. Thirteen episodes were featured on the first volume and the remaining 13 shows are contained on Volume 2.
A bottle, not a snow globe falls, from the hand of a drunken Herman J. Mankiewicz in the trailer for David Fincher’s “Mank.”
In an interview with The Film Stage to promote “Hopper/Welles,” Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski spoke about their support for a physical media release.
Comprised of previously unknown interview footage, “Hopper/Welles” captures a November 1970 conversation shot during “The Other Side of the Wind” between Orson Welles and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper.
The eight-day film festival, set for October 15-22, is based out of Los Angeles, though it will be held virtually this year because of the pandemic.
Welles scholar Joseph McBride writes, “Kudos to all involved in ‘Hopper/Welles’ for giving us more bounty from the director’s seemingly endless closet of unfinished material. “
“Hopper/Welles” will be shown in the Icons category, which showcases the latest films of contemporary iconic filmmakers from around the world.
The 58th edition of the New York Film Festival will present a series of free online chats with filmmakers later this month, including a talk featuring the team behind Hopper/Welles. On Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m., NYFF58 will offer an online talk focusing on two festival offerings: Hopper/Welles and Raul Ruiz’ The Tango of […]
Hopper/Welles will get its first theatrical showing in the United States at the Queens Drive-in on Friday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. The showing is part of the 58th New York Film Festival, which had previously announced streamed-only showings of the movie, which was directed by Orson Welles and stars Dennis Hopper. Hopper/Welles is comprised […]
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 […]
By RAY KELLY Should Hopper/Welles be considered an Orson Welles film? The documentary, which premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival and will be streamed at the upcoming the New York Film Festival, is not in the final form Welles intended. Rather, it is a fragment of a project that never developed beyond […]
By MASSIMILIANO STUDER It’s important that producer Filip Jan Rymsza find a distributor for this gem that has emerged from the film vault of The Other Side of the Wind; allowing Italian cinephiles to see and understand the New Hollywood environment of 1970 — a documentary that Ciro Giorgini would certainly have done everything to […]
Hopper/Welles will be streamed to New York Film Festival ticket holders for its U.S. premiere at the 58th festival later this month. Mindful of coronavirus restrictions, NYFF58 offerings this year will be shown at either drive-in movie theaters or — as in the case of Hopper/Welles — streamed for home viewing over a secure online […]
