WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Another great find, Terry! This is not only the best looking recording of this show that I've seen, but it's also the first time I've ever seen the complete show. In all other recordings of it, the beginning and end were missing.

Maybe someday we'll even get to watch it without the German subs!

Thanks Terry. The song is apparently from a British musical from the early 60s called THE ROAR OF THE GREASPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD. The plot concerns theatrical performers, so it might have been up Welles's alley. The description of the ending at Wiki makes it sound like WAITING FOR GODOT, and...

Sorry to hear that, admusicam. Hope you get a chance to see it soon. It's well worth watching. I can't really add much to what Ray and Joe McBride eloquently said in their respective reviews, but one impression I get from watching the film is that Welles may have been using this interview to determi...

Welles told Barbra Leaming that he drove an actress home one night in the forties. She accused him of rape, and to avoid publicity (he was married to Rita Hayworth at the time), he paid the actress off, and never drove a car again.

Another great article by Professor McBride. Can't wait to see the movie. 'Their discussions about sex, a key aspect of Other Wind, get a bit lively when Welles-as-Jake says that for an elderly, impotent director filming an orgy, “Your zoom is your only prick.” That ties in with Jake’s suspect machis...

Right at the end of the 1982 Cinémathèque Française lecture OW is asked if he would like his followup to FILMING OTHELLO to be FILMING MACBETH, but he says he would prefer to make FILMING THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, because that one is more interesting and richer in anecdotes.

AMERICAN DREAMER is really strange, with Hopper at times sounding like a Charles Manson wannabe while he babbles stoned/mystical stuff to a house full of groupies. No wonder he fucked up the post-production of THE LAST MOVIE. Hard to believe it's the same, relatively thoughtful guy that we see in th...

That's interesting, because Nolan's latest film, TENET (which I saw yesterday), features Kenneth Branagh as a mysterious, Arkadin-like business magnate, and Branagh, with a Slavic accent and a slow, quietly ominous delivery, even sounds like he's doing an imitation of Welles as Arkadin! Funny stuff;...

Here's a rough attempted transcription of some of Welles's remarks: 'The enthusiasm for making films comes from going to them...(but filmmaking students) have fallen under the spell of the most wicked of the muses, because making a film is too expensive and too hard to get financing and distribution...

I was always intrigued by the Spanish title for Ambersons: EL CUARTO MANDEMIENTO (The Fourth Commandment). Ambersons is not an overtly religious film, but reference to the fourth of the Ten Commandments ("Honor they Mother and Father") does shine a slightly ironic light on one of the film'...

Thanks, atcolomb. I listened to the whole series on Youtube the last two nights; very good, and a good companion piece to the Polly Platt podcast series also available now online. The two series overlap quite a few times in an interesting "He said, She said", kind of way. Ben Mankiewicz, t...

Yes, that's a good way to look at it, admusicam. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND is still very much a living project, still generating new films. And no, I can't think of another example of it in film history, except maybe Welles's other unfinished projects, such as IT'S ALL TRUE, DON QUIXOTE, ORSON'S BA...

Interesting. I've never heard Welles say anything about EASY RIDER, so I'm wondering why he had such an interest in Hopper. Maybe because, unlike most of the other "New Hollywood" directors, Hopper was willing and able to do it on both sides of the camera. Maybe Welles recognized a kindred...

That's great to see they're making use of all that extra footage. Maybe several movies will come out of it. I'd like to see one of the Jaglom/Mazursky conversation too. I've heard Hopper got pretty stoned for his interview with Welles, so I guess we'll see how clear and coherent he is with a sustain...

I watched it on Amazon recently and found it very interesting, especially Kael's ambition to create a kind of army of like-minded critics who would do her bidding and bolster her opinions (the "Paulettes"). The film is mostly talking heads, though, so it's hard to imagine why someone would...