WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

2005 was the 400th anniversary of Quixote's first publication, and many commemorative and scholarly events were held throughout the year in Spain. Jess Franco was part of a roundtable put together by the Spanish Cinemateque (Filmoteca Española) in April, seating scholars alongside him (Franco) and ...

"...Alice begins to grow and a lawyer cross-examines himself." ...is Michael "Alice"? Alice is Alice. As in: http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/TheLadyFromShanghai/x-shanghai24.jpg or http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T112/ladyfromshanghai01.jpg But I think our beatnik friend mostly means our ...

Notice too that TCM has picked up a handful of the old Dick Cavett shows. Hopefully this number will expand, because the Welles interview is not among the announced group. Also, Dick Cavett will be on TCM this month in the guest programmer slot. THE THIRD MAN is one of his picks, so he may talk abo...

Remember that the obstacles to a "Comprehensive ARKADIN"-style assembly of DQ are 1) Bonanni, and 2) Spanish ownership of the general film rights for which an exclusive commercial product is already possessed. Affecting no.2 is what folks are presently discussing, as Bonanni will not be moved. So f...

Just watched the DVD of SAINT JACK. In his commentary and interview, Bogdanovich only refers to the "idea" of having Orson direct it, but he doesn't go into details. He does say Orson turned him onto the book, and what an influence he was personally and through his films, but that's about it. As fa...

:D The ranks are swelling. Hopefully the interview with Bonanni will be translated soon. My own fantasy symbolic gesture would be to somehow induce a crazy number of people to each send us their DVD of Franco's DQ. Then we could deliver them all to Bonnani's doorstep. But thousands of them, like le...

My perhaps "highfalutin" talk about an artist needing to give up his fantasy in order to create an artwork was not a demand that it be pried from the artist's grasp by any means necessary (with all due thanks to Max Brod, nevertheless). Anyway, the question of the "privacy" of the actual artifact h...

R Kadin, thoughtful as always, asks the question: Had Welles delivered his definitive cut years ago, would we be speaking in such rallying terms or would we...merely be trading opinions on a static work...? On the simplest level, I do think the former would be true. If original negatives of a finis...

Re: what footage is where... Jeff Wilson specified in his recap from Locarno last year that the Cinematheque Francaise holds workprint materials for Quixote. He also mentioned that it was Ciro Giorgini who presented this and other elements, such as certain Patty McCormack scenes, etc., at the Locar...

It sounds like we really don't know where the 117,200 meters of footage are. You say this as though the footage you're subtracting were accounted for because we have the DVD. Where's that footage, though? Let's not be frantic about this. Franco's version was created through the Madrid Cinematheque....