Shout! Factory will release a 4-DVD set on September 12th of the Dick Cavett TV show focusing on 15 Legendary Hollywood actors and directors. This 4-DVD set will contain 12 episodes featuring: Directors: Orson Welles, John Huston, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks and Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Robert Mitchum, […]
http://www.upress.umn.edu/ Not sure why Hank’s on the cover…however, this book contains a chapter by Catherine Benamou called �Realism as Artifice and the Lure of the Real in Orson Welles�s F for Fake (1973).� It looks pretty interesting… Tony The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary’s authority […]
áIn 2002, Catherine Benamou wrote the following for the Brazilian documentary film festival called “It’s All True”: á”Besides some excerpts, which can be cherished in a copy that this Festival will screen, there is a larger text and story to be rescued from the cans stacked up in the UCLA collection and yet labeled “It’s […]
Robert Gitt is the senior film preservation officer at the UCLA film archive, who over the years has been responsible for many important film restoration projects, including the 1980 restoration of Orson Welles original 108-minute version of Macbeth. I talked with Mr. Gitt last year about both his original restoration of Macbeth, and thanks to […]
The UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION at The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA campus. Info: (310) 296-FILM �The UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION Presents on August 10th at 7:30 PM Orson Welles’ MACBETH (Sans�SHAKESPEARE) and � ORSON WELLES AND THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM W/� guest speakers Joesph McBride and Catherine Benamou +++++++++++++++++++ � By Kenneth Turan, LA […]
According to Jonathan Rosenbaum,�a book�collecting his articles and pieces on Welles should be out next summer.� Additionally, he notes that a very important French book on Welles published by Cahiers du Cinema�should be out�this November entitled “Orson Welles au Travail” (Orson Welles at Work), with an English edition�possibly forthcoming next year; the authors are Francois […]
I might have mentioned this previously, but it’s worth making sure: the Bernard Herrmann site is up and running again, after being in hibernation for a few years. If you’re a Herrmann fan, this is the place to go: http://www.bernardherrmann.org/news/ Tony
I’m happy to report that Chris Welles Feder, Orson Welles eldest daughter, has agreed to offer readers of Wellesnet a limited number of signed copies of her beautifully written book of poems about her father, ”The Movie Director.” The book was privately published in a limited edition in 2002, which is probably why most Welles fans may […]
Of course the producers hated me most, because if I could do all those things, than what is the need for a producer? � �Orson Welles��������� Without final cut an artist cannot function. � �Henry Jaglom��� ������������������� ��*��������������*�������������*� It�s insane that filmmakers have to play that game, and that�s why movies suck! � �Ed Burns� […]
According to Amazon.com, a new Welles book has been released today (June 30th): Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Scene by Scene (Paperback) by Randy Rasmussen � Paperback: 280 pages � Publisher: McFarland & Company (June 30, 2006) � Language: English � ISBN: 0786426039 Here’s the blurb: “Six major Welles films�Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The […]
I just received a copy of Chris Welles Feder’s book of fictional poems entitled The Movie Director and I was struck by several of the pieces which form a “wonderful portrait of Chris Welles’ father – although it’s a portrait that the author stresses is in many places entirely fictional. Below is one of the […]
Thanks to Colin Hand for sending along this link to a nice interview with Frank Marshall about his latest movie, Eight Below, which also covers Marshall’s long association with Peter Bogdanovich. However the highlight for Welles fans is a tidbit about Marshall’s ongoing involvement in producingThe Other Side of The Wind, which is apparently now […]
While re-reading Jeanne Moreau’s poem on Welles, I began thinking about other poets who have written about Welles, and felt it might be interesting to post some of these poetic pieces as well. So upcoming will be pieces by Patti Smith and Welles own daughter, Chris Welles Feder, with any additional suggestions being most welcome. And as can be […]
To Orson where ever you are: I love you. I’m still with you, with all of my heart. —Jeanne Moreau in Durga Strana Wellesa (The Other Side of Orson Welles) A documentary film on Orson Welles career in Yugoslavia By Daniel Rafaelic and Leon Rizmaul +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Film historians Daniel Rafaelic and Leon Rizmaul have put together a very […]
When talking with Roger Corman about his Edgar Allan Poe movies, I took the opportunity to ask him about his dinner meeting with Orson Welles, which took place in the mid-seventies when Corman and Peter Bogdanovich were preparing St. Jack, which Welles was originally supposed to direct. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask Corman about Welles […]
Interested vistors to Wellesnet may wish to take an informative survey about how best to help save the fragile footage of Orson Welles Don Quixote. Thanks to Wellesnet member R Kadin for setting up the survey, and before taking the survey, I recommend reading Audrey Stainton’s Sight & Sound article posted below, for important background […]
Just received and watched “Brunnen”, a documentary on Welles’s years in Spain by Swedish filmaker Kristian Petri, and featuring interviews with Oja Kodar, director Jess Franco, author Peter Viertel ( screenwriter of several famous films and author of many books, the most famous of which is “White Hunter, Black Heart”) and several “unfamous” individuals who […]
Given the very lively discussion about the various possibities of completing Don Quixote that is ongoing on the forum, here – as requested – is the complete text of Audrey Stainton’s excellent article on the filming of Don Quixote and it’s subsequent editing, that appeared in Sight and Sound in 1988.
Since the first public glimpse of Orson Welles Don Quixote was presented thirty years ago this month at the Cannes film festival�less than a year after Welles had died�I thought it would be interesting to present some background material on that very first public showing. The Don Quixote footage shown at Cannes was apparently entrusted […]
Orson Welles received the AFI’s lifetime achievement award on February 9, 1975, and without a doubt gave the best acceptance speech that any recepient of that august award has ever delivered. The show was taped for broadcast on CBS and was available on videotape, but since it has long been out of print, here is […]
