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Review of One Man Band: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-elder-Welles-A-waste-of-talent-3152342.php "One-Man Band" provides an interesting contrast to the recently aired PBS documentary, "The Battle Over Citizen Kane," in which wunderkind Welles, a famous stage director, r...

The 2003 documentary is now on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om1nHCdljBA
Welles is in it only briefly, towards the end, but he does acknowledge Long Tack Sam as a mentor during a clip from one of the Sketchbook shows.

Cole Porter's Around the World songs online:
https://www.wellesnet.com/cole-porter-s ... the-world/

Behind the Flicks podcast with guest Joseph McBride:

From Wellesnet Facebook- Chris Kent: "We could do with this now, on both sides of the Atlantic." Interesting Harper's article touches on the need for "WPA of the 21st Century" in the wake of the pandemic's catastrophic effect on the arts: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/stage...

Daron Hagen's music score for "Orson Rehearsed" is now available on CD from the Naxos label: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8872972--daron-hagen-orson-rehearsed?country=US&currency=USD&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkZiFBhD9ARIsAGxFX8B83-VZTcJqZSsqfgdVTR7apjlmoM_IhH65ooJETHUDtlHf5RS...

‘New Deal for Artists’ recalls WPA impact on arts (review): https://www.wellesnet.com/new-deal-artists-review/ The WPA’s impact on the arts during the Great Depression is recounted in this seldom-seen film from West German writer-director Wieland Schulz-Keil. First broadcast in the U.S. by PBS in 1...

The latest CINEVERSARY podcast marks the 80th anniversary of "Citizen Kane" with interviews with Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips, TCM senior director of original programming Scott McGee, and film historian Joseph McBride. Check it out at https://anchor.fm/cineversary/episodes/35-Ci...

Wellesnet writeup:
https://www.wellesnet.com/norman-lloyd-dead/

Norman Lloyd Dies: ‘St. Elsewhere’ Actor Who Worked With Welles, Hitchcock & Chaplin Was 106 https://deadline.com/2021/05/norman-lloyd-dead-st-elsewhere-actor-1234754280/ Blessed with a commanding voice, Lloyd’s acting career dates back to Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre troupe, of which he was t...

VOODOO MACBETH is heading to Arizona and later North Carolina for two festival screenings in June.
https://www.wellesnet.com/voodoo-macbeth-more-appearances/

Here's a 1979 review of the film in the Village Voice. The Late, Great Orson Welles: https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/10/27/the-late-great-orson-welles/ Many so-called “auteurists” believe that Welles’s career has essentially been in eclipse since Falstaff. These “critics” discount all of Welles’s ...

Andrew Sarris's response to Kael's article:
https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/12/02 ... qfHSeNx_FE

Aggregator Rotten Tomatoes recently dug up an obscure bad notice of Citizen Kane from 1941, which served to spoil its 100% perfect reviews score there — timed, no doubt, by the website to capitalize on interest in the movie’s 80th anniversary on May 1. On the bright side, the manufactured controvers...

"New Deal for Artists" — a look back at the WPA and what has been called the most ambitious government-supported arts program since the Italian Renaissance — has been remastered. Narrated by Orson Welles, it is set for re-release in May 2021. https://www.wellesnet.com/remastered-wpa-docume...