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Vidamonte, I will be in Locarno from 6th to 10th August. As told, I will present a study that I worked at in 1989-1990 about the existing versions of Mr Arkadin. At that time it could have been of some interest, but at the moment I recommend to follow the work that Stefan Drossler is doing about the...

Hi to the Forum. I will be in Locarno participating in the workshop of DON QUJIOTE. I will even present the new edition of NELLA TERRA DI DON CHISCIOTTE made for RAI, and a work that I made in the early nineties about MR ARKADIN. I do not have any problem (agreeing with the other people of the Forum...

During the nineties Francis Ford Coppola was in Rome, to present his Dracula, and I had an interview with him for Rai television. We talk half an hour about his inspiration by Welles' version ,that he confirmed. At the very end of the interview I asked him, with a bashful disappointment, if he ever ...

At my knowledge the serie of 9 documentaries shot and directed in the early sixties by OW for italian tv has never been aired in other part of the world. There were plans for an american and english release, and I have read some extras for a commentary he made for a possible spanish version. But nev...

Jaime I have seen the full spanish Arkadin many years ago. If I remember well it should be the same version of Corinth, but I could be wrong. Every detail of that you can find on the excellent book by Esteve Riambau, ORSON WELLES UNA ESPANA IMMORTAL, edited in Spain in 1993 for Ediciones Documents F...

many yers ago I interwieved John Berry about Too Much Johnson. He probably was one one the few persons able to tell a first hand comment. I cannot remember quite all of his words, (only "a so great idea..") and I was a bit disappointed about it. I should have a tape or something. As soon as I find i...

I agree with Sir Bygber Brown about the stilistic choice in Othello and that not in opposition to Eisenstein of course. I want to add a little narration, reported to me by Oberdan Trojani. He told me, during an interview, that they were together in Mogador, shooting a scene of Othello, when arrived ...

I think that another Arkadin version could be considered the working print found from Fred Junck in the late seventies and preserved for years and years at the Luxembourg Cinematheque Municipale. That version seem to be the basis for the Corinth version (passage from Arkadin TO Confidential Report, ...