WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Dial up? If I were you I would see what my public library had to offer.

I didn't know Carringer did a Kane commentary. I thought that was Ambersons.

Buck in Stagecoach is not as loony as the nightman in Touch of Evil.

For various reasons, I’m not going to speculate further. Me neither, it's not worth the aggravation, and I suspect that there are too may lies from too many people. Jonathon Rosenbaum indicates Welles as telling him in 1972 that Quixote was finished. Audrey Stanton said pretty much the same thing i...

On the Wellesnet Message Board, there is discussion – and a hope – that you are in possession of an edit of Don Quixote done by your father? No. There is (an edit of Don Quixote) and it is in Italy… (Welles' former editor Mauro Bonanni) got in touch with me and asked, ‘Do you know I have this.’ I a...

That definitely looks like the ultimate "Macbeth" set. I'm looking forward to it.

we can't hang this one on Beatrice. And tweaking OTHELLO in a misguided and unsuccessful attempt to realize Welles' imagined intentions is not the same as moving an entire art form from one stage to another.] No, although I would say Beatrice's overhauling of the Othello soundtrack went way beyond ...

Well, it may be an interesting and well-intentioned experiment, but I would compare it to Beatrice's Othello restoration; as Night Man said, it changes the very nature of the original with high technology just to make it more accessible to modern audiences. I would also compare it in a way to Disney...

Thanks, Jollytinker. Let us know what you find out for sure. I'd have no problem paying $50 for it, but $80? Hmmm, I'd have to think about that. That's a little steep for a book, although it does sound like something that could become a real collector's item. Tough decision. Just out of curiosity, h...

I would tend to disagree too, although I applaud Glenn for putting his thoughts on the issue out there. If that's what Welles was really thinking, one has to wonder, whether he would have preferred the two-tiered model of society, with a tiny ruling elite lording it over an enormous poverty class, s...

I've always been baffled but intrigued by this one:

"The middle class is the enemy of society and middle age is the enemy of life"

Anyone care to take a crack at deciphering that one?

Thanks alot Store Hadji, for posting that. I'd never heard of it either, but it's an interesting little story.

Why not? I don't believe that Welles actually directed Jane Eyre, but he says he produced it, and unless you're a hardcore advocate of the "auteur theory", you'd have to admit that a producer can sometimes be as much or more of a decisive influence on a film's artistic quality (or lack of, in some c...

I've only seen parts of "Avalon". I'll have to check out the whole thing sometime. Levinson had some nice things to say about Welles on Criterion's 50th anniversary "Citizen Kane" LD from 1991. He said it was too bad Welles didn't have a steady patron who could have just said "Let's have another Ors...

Roger, interesting that you should mention the underwater knife fight at the end, because I seem to remember reading somewhere that that scene was not even directed by Welles, but rather by Welles's Todd School mentor Roger Hill! Kevin, I would agree with Roger that Bogdanovich has made quite a few ...

It sounds to me as if Welles may have wanted to suggest that Oja's character might actually prefer Laurence Harvey to her husband. Maybe there was at least meant to be some ambiguity there. Regarding post-synching the soundtrack, they ought to get someone like John Lassiter from Disney who has done ...