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A hour or so after GeekGabNews posted on Twitter it was a 4K UltraHD release, they added: "I can confirm 100% Citizen Kane license is back with Criterion. I’m not saying UHD is 100% coming." https://scontent-iad3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/205982707_10159210635017199_2625266738754266884_n....

A recent podcast recounts how Orson Welles lent his voice to the teaser trailer for “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” the cinematic return of the cult 1960s television series. Article: https://www.wellesnet.com/star-trek-trailer-orson-welles/ Podcast: https://anchor.fm/inglorious-treksperts/episodes...

Welles interviews his school mentor Roger Hill about the Todd School and other subjects:

Part1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykliy0tEhJ0

Part2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4VwyxB9Sc

Part4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii7mHFJhuA0

Restored ‘F for Fake’ to be shown at Cannes:
https://www.wellesnet.com/f-for-fake-ca ... A5m8TIa83g

Hollywood Couples - Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth:

The Voodoo Macbeth film wins "Best of Fest" award at the Sedona Film Festival:
https://www.wellesnet.com/voodoo-macbeth-winner/

Thanks for the review, Tony. Here's another good one of the film itself at Mank's Movie Musings. The Stranger: Orson Welles’ lone box office hit may be his least personal film but it’s still a terrific Noir thriller with Welles in top form as actor & director: https://manksjoint.home.blog/2021/0...

Mysterious Castles of Clay is an Oscar-nominated 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles:
https://rarefilmm.com/2017/12/mysteriou ... clay-1978/

Beyond the Boy Wonder: A Deeper Look at Orson Welles
Conversation with David Thomson (author of Rosebud) from last Summer about Welles's life and career:
https://vimeo.com/520172312

It's being reported on a few websites that in a recent Zoom lecture Jonathan Rosenbaum mentioned that he is planning to record a commentary track on Citizen Kane with James Naremore. Also there is talk that Criterion might release it on Blu-ray or a 4K release by Warner Bros? While we were unable t...

2013 episode from the BBC series. A nice 41-minute collection of mostly British Welles stuff. Narrated by Sylvia Sims:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZPTHZujMt0

The Youtube link is defunct, but it's now on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/165599767

Review of One Man Band: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-elder-Welles-A-waste-of-talent-3152342.php "One-Man Band" provides an interesting contrast to the recently aired PBS documentary, "The Battle Over Citizen Kane," in which wunderkind Welles, a famous stage director, r...