WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

For anyone interested in scores on CD, Quartet Records has just released a 2 CD set of the complete score of Falstaff, along with the original soundtrack album as put together by Angelo Lavagnino. Only 500 copies, so grab it if you want it...

The Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be screening the film Nov 2-8, for anyone near enough. Now I can skip seeing it first on Netflix, thankfully.

Well, here's a summary from my notes, which tell me I looked at this in May 2001. How time flies... Anyway, elderly Don Carlos is the owner of a hacienda where he tries to be the benevolent owner, but his peons are getting restless. His new wife (the Del Rio role), Josefina, is too young for him. Sh...

THE THREE PRE-KANE SCREENPLAYS : The Way to Santiago/Mexican Melodrama As a third anti-Nazi project Welles began to adapt Arthur Calder-Marshall’s The Way to Santiago, renamed Mexican Melodrama. Welles was to play two roles, an innocent American who blunders into a Nazi plot in Mexico and his doubl...

A label called Alhambra Records has been doing an ongoing series of releases of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino's movie work, and the next release is dedicated to his three scores for Welles: Othello, Falstaff, and Merchant of Venice. While Othello gets only three tracks (albeit from the original recordi...

PRINCE OF FOXES comes out on blu-ray 2/7/17 from Kino Lorber.

The Lady Esther and Mobil shows had pretty different initial intentions; the Lady Esther show's original intent, as described in promotional material, was: "It’s a difficult show to pin down in cold type. It would be a program without a formula…just as an evening spent with interesting and well...

One more note: I'm not certain if this was in the original Dinesen story, but I just realized how clever/fortunate the line of dialogue is that explains how the former Clay associate Louie Ducrow had everything of value destroyed in his manor. This allows all those interior shots of the manor to be...

This would indeed be nice to have, but the economics of the set would likely be a problem, because such a set would not be cheap, and would be a very niche product in an already niche market. It probably wouldn't review well, due to the rough and unfinished nature of much of the work. Take The Deep....

This Wikipedia page has some dates (with citations) that you don't have.

The Lilly press release specifies that this goes beyond just the Lady Esther series: "the grant will assist digitization experts as they embark upon the preservation of 324 master sound recordings in the form of lacquer discs."

"Algiers" was the source of some heated discussion between Diana Bourbon, the ad rep for CP, Ernest Chappell, and Welles after broadcast. Bourbon wrote to Chappell (sending Welles a copy as well) about what a disaster she thought the show was, describing it as "one of the worst we hav...

The BBC just did a short documentary about the film, available at their site.

tonyw wrote:And to think I over-optimistically added the DVD of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND for my the final film in my May Welles class!

If it was any May this century, it was probably over-optimistic.

If this: One of the conundrums of editing is that Welles said that the film-within-the-film should be fifty percent of the film, and I argued during the time I was working on it that that stuff should be cut back, because it would drive people out of the theatre. But Oja thinks that that is a work o...