WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Mike: As a Wellsian character might say, this could be the start of something big!

Anyway, let's keep working on it.

Alex

Frankly, Mike, before my home theater was ruined by the fire in our apartment building, I can remember sitting down with my friend, Bambo-Bambo Christianson, to watch CITIZEN KANE on LD. We were knocked out by the beauty and truth of the film. A couple of years later, I bought the new DVD of Orson W...

Dear gazza: Be assured: If this wonderful film ever emerges in virgin state from the vault where it is hidden, you will know of it here. Meanwhile, encourage the various talented people working on it, who occasionally drop in here to express similar frustrations. Glenn Anders

What a superb report of an equally superb acquisition, Ray! A number of people we have met here from time to time are to be thanked, too, for sure. Especially, the original impetus of Catherine Benamou! And the loving devotion of Chris Welles Feder. I was particularly struck, Ray, by your descriptio...

Ray: It would seem that multifarious generational morphing will either finally give birth to Orson Welles' THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, or destroy its possibilities. In the meantime, it's almost like . . . incest! Danny Huston is already established, through FADE TO BLACK, as a Welles' alter ego. Now...

I happened to see Wolfit's SVENGALI when down from Lakenheath to London in 1954. I was on a "movie binge" three-day pass and walked across Leicester Square to the Odeon to see LUCRECE BORGIA with Pedro Armendariz and Martine Carole . . . WELL!! That one took care of any puritan thoughts I ...

I would not quite go so far as to identify President Obama with Louis Lepke Buchalter -- different Big City Mob, for one thing -- but I do think Our President is a term server. He's not up to the job before all of us. Strangely enough, Representative Ron Paul has taken over the Republican Convention...

Ah! But Hildegarde Kneff had beautiful tartar eyes . . . .

I've been re-reading the posts on this topic, and although Glenn Beck seems to have faded from the scene (as we predicted he would), the points made about the Republican Election Campaign turned out to be pretty well on the mark. Thinking about Representative Todd Ryan's comments on "legitimate...

Mike: His answers have an old lion's quality . . . still dangerous, still beautiful but haggard and crippled, defiant to the end.

Glenn

Yes, Colmena. True. Thank you.

Colomena: This exchange has been a brilliant one, and your contribution perhaps the most brilliant of all, now summing up the paradox of Charles Foster Kane, as it might be applied in a self-analytical way by George Orson Welles to his central character, himself and American Life in general. That's ...

Yes, interesting point, Mike: Vidal's documentary, which I have on VHS somewhere (in two parts), was very personal and imaginative, similar in some ways to F FOR FAKE, but without Welles' sense of humor or quite the suppleness. Thinking of Vidal's death, no one has pointed out my old friend BAMBO=BA...

True, I agree, Todd: And as we saw later at SF's Castro Theater (in slightly different parallax views), Mr. Friedkin was not ready to hide his ego or perceived influence at Warner Brothers. Still, three years later, his KILLER JOE, though with some mixed reviews, is receiving praise, especially for ...

Happy (posthumous) Birthday to John Huston [1906-1987], Orson Welles friend, student, model, and mentor.

He was "some kind of man" (and artist), too.

Hail and farewell to him and all. [As I'm afraid you'll see.]

Glenn