WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

The Director's Cut of this film is now available on rarefilmm.com, a ccompanying still showing Orson as a weighty Oblomov!

I've just finished the first draft of my review for FILM INTERNATIONAL. Thinking of how I can bring in some new material, I remembered that Norman Rodway (Hotspur in CHIMES) appeared in a 1978 BBC Play of the Month version of DANTON'S DEATH playing the title role. I wonder if this production survive...

Conrad is in danger of being forgotten, at least in some English Departments (!), so it is gratifying to learn about this. When I visited Manchester's Central Reference Library last month, I asked where Joseph Conrad's books were. The thirtyish librarian asked, "Who?" then immediately apol...

Yes, "apology of sorts" but no retraction for the damage she did by her vicious writing. Look at the way she constantly denigrates Susan Clark in her reviews! She is a disgrace to film criticism as well as a blacklist supporter as seen in her earlier condemnation of SALT OF THE EARTH (1954).

Elementary, my Dear McBride! We all know this here. But do these uneducated bozos outside and I include cowardly faculty, administrators, and "bottom of the barrel" BOT's (Board of Trustees). Tet, all this has to do with education, complexity, and knowledge - the last things on their mind!

Perhaps not even Orson is safe - beating up and framing Hispanics in TOUCH OF EVIL to say nothing about Charleston in Hispanic-face. "Why couldn't they have cast Ricardo Montalban?"

This is one person whose centenary should not be celebrated. For Lindsay Anderson's reaction to her his NEVER APOLOGIZE collection of essays is worth consulting. He confronted her in person and in his writing.

I did run Roger's reconstruction as well as "Dinosaur" during my Welles' classes on alternate semesters. That was when student enrollments allowed for sufficient numbers for 300 and 400 level classes on Welles and other directors. It was possible thanks to Jaime Marzol. It is good to see t...

Review will appear on the internet site of FILM INTERNATIONAL - www.filmint.nu.com

This is so impressive. Rowman brought out my JAMES JONES: THE LIMITS OF ETERNITY, a book that also had a very traumatic gestation though not as bad as Joe's experiences with FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS. This non-mainstream publisher, like Hightower Press, is publishing some very importan...

I fully second that. Both Joe and Ray are sterling examples of journalism with integrity, a very rare commodity today. But some of the students I've had in my former film classes do give me hope for the future. Others have engaged in great investigative journalism to the shame of the local newspaper...

You are very welcome - especially since you have more tales to tell - Billy Wilder and many more!

Oh yes, the investigative reporter parallel I noted but unlike Thompson you will reveal all the pieces of the jigsaw. As for your accident in the 80s, I don't think it was due to any unconscious identification with Capra but more to the emotional and physical exhaustion affecting you during a very g...

I'd like to thank this site yet again for making these valuable audio-recordings available especially the DRACULA remix. Using the 1938 broadcast in a 100 level freshman composition class they allow me to teach (for the moment?) in a very creative manner, I've directed students as to how to find the...

As I've told Joe and mentioned so often before I bought Capra's autobiography several decades ago in Manchester. When I began reading it, I became very unsatisfied feeling that this was not the entire picture. So, it was one of those rare film books I had that I sold elsewhere. THE CATASTROPHE OF SU...