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sociopsychoeconomic Wow, what an awful theory. It seems to be based entirely on profitability and fame - "greatest hits"-ism, disregarding the fact that the famous works aren't always the greatest ones. The idea that Eliot never achieved anything more important than Prufrock is patently absurd, nev...

mteal wrote:Thanks, LA.

Glad to be of use.

On the single occasion I saw The Immortal Story (on a Conoisseur Video (BFI) copy), it struck me as quite an eerie, chilling film, the logical conclusion of those moments of modernist unease that occur in The Trial and (to a lesser extent) Chimes at Midnight . There's a Senses of Cinema piece by Ad...

Great stuff...if you have the "eye" for listening... Indeed. It is also worth noting the appearance in the "Stately Home" sketch of Tim Brooke-Taylor as Algy, and Graeme Garden as the narrator. Brooke-Taylor and Garden, along with Bill Oddie, formed The Goodies - one of Britain's most popular comed...

During the Golden Age, there were about one or two minutes of commercials per episode. Much much less than radio or tv today. You're still getting 28 minutes of The Shadow and two minutes of enjoyable silliness about Blue Coal, America's favourite anthrocite - order a trial ton today! As for shows ...

the older welles got the more his work fascinates, and thrills me. Same here. It's probably, as I suspected, a question of taste. ...as is the fact that I found what little I've seen of Jack Benny quite funny. I haven't heard his radio stuff though. I'm always put off "old time radio" by the massiv...

His work lost its edge and became more portentous and pretentious. THE DREAMERS looks like THE NIGHTMARES. Well, you've probably seen more of that footage than I have, but what I've seen looks quite beautiful, far from pretentious, although I suppose it could be described as portentous if we take t...

Thanks for that URL, colwood. That's great news, I can't think how it passed me by. A Ford- Harry Carey film from 1917. What a find. If that can be found, who knows... Of course, it's extremely unlikely any lost Ambersons fotage will turn up. But I suppose we can keep hoping without expecting .

Thanks for that information, Jeff.

I wonder what that "Orson Welles magic film" is? Possibly some footage of the Mercury Wonder Show? Although 1945 would be a little late for that...

colwood said: Then again, according to the PeopleNews section of today's IMDB (4/22), they apparently just found a silent western by John Ford that's been missing for 70 years, so maybe there is still hope that someone, somewhere, someday may find the complete Ambersons. Wow, I missed that news. Whi...

I know that Mr. Arkadin was the last film to be called a Mercury Production, as far I'm aware there were no theatre Mercury productions after this, but I may be wrong.

This is great news, in my opinion, but not for the reason Jaime M. thinks it is, I'm afraid to say. I think it's great news because Warner are potentially going to hammer Beatrice in the courts, and in the aftermath of that (after all these years of threats, a real court appearance for Beatrice), wi...

Tony, I think the quote you were thinking of may have been Cocteau's comment that Welles was an aristocratic director working in a middle-class industry, can't remember the exact quote myself though. The problem was, I think, that Welles' endings tended to be natural : he made films with serious the...

I hope I'm not too late to congratulate you, Jaime, on a great article. That's the kind of piece I wish had been around when I first got interestested in Welles and there was next-to-nothing on the net about him. Great to read someone speaking up for The Trial , which has always been one of my favou...

I think the major flaw of BOCK is it's apparent desire to be "even-handed" about Welles and Hearst. Both were, apparently, two sides of the same coin, destined to clash. There's one main problem with this "equalising" thesis: it simply ain't so. Welles' faults: he could be brash and arrogant, and on...