WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Tony wrote I don't recall him speaking about this, though; however there are Wellsian shots, and in particular one stunning shot of the camera dollying up to Saul standing beside a column with that metaphysical vibrating, just as it dollies up to Othello as he makes his decision to kill Desdemona. ...

Roger Ryan posted this on the 'Orsigari' thread, but seeing as this thread uses the 'minotaur' image... Catbuglah has drawn attention to my favorite moment in "Touch Of Evil": Quinlan sits in the bordello in front of a wall filled with framed photos of bullfighters. Suddenly, Vargas' face appears i...

The Inside Story of the Film Orson Welles called “Il Mio Bambino” By Audrey Stainton Sight and Sound - Autumn 1988 This loose-page method of his exceeded all limits on David and Goliath. Ignoring the Italian screenplay, he just picked up the Bible, had me type out episodes concerning Saul and turne...

The black spot! Good suspense. Music's not bad. "too close to home" AKA "protesteth too much". In the Treasure Island bit in TIOW, he doesn't protesteth too much, but methinks he does denyeth too much, though. He seems quite careful to distance himself from the directing issue. I don't think he's u...

P.S. I just realized that Glenn was paraphrasing, (Glenn has his own views, which is fine, cool, no prob) not a direct Welles quote - so to rephrase - the impression I get from Tony's quote and in general is that when Welles denies something in such a colorfully blunt manner, then the question is a...

I would tend to interpret the two preceding quotes as meaning: 'Don't go there.' Which is why I find the Welles memos that he wrote to the studios to defend against the mangling of his films to be so invaluable - he was kind of forced to lift the veil on his special secrets to a certain extant and ...

Thanks for passing that one along, Roger - astute observation - quite a brillant sequence on Welles' part - I have trouble swallowing his anti-symbolism statement myself (there's a whole gallery of recurrent 'Wellesian' symbolic images - mirrors, for example - bulls, even) - and as you say, it's do...

KR-TOE Same idea in both - Lang's Kriemhild's Revenge and Touch of Evil - Juxtaposing main character with a horned beast in background to make a psychological reflection on said main character. Overall, there seems to be quite a few Lang references in Welles - although Welles tends to takes Lang's ...

There's this thing they do a lot in Treasure Island - they start a scene with a close-up on an object and then move into the scene proper (by travelling or zooming back) - fun thing -(they actually do that a lot in Dances with Wolves, to good effect IMO, whether Costner is familiar with Welles, I d...

A couple more frames of Siegfried - David comparisons - Siegfried-David a Siegfried - David b It's probably an oblique assumption that because a frame in a movie Welles might have co-directed (although the recent article from Welles' secretary during David is pretty convincing) resembles a frame in...