WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Lots of good stuff, including commentaries and interviews, one by a guy whose name escapes me.
https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-ma ... -ambersons

"All About Kane"--a classic! Speaking of a lack of brain fluid: In honor of TCM showing Kane during a Mankiewicz Brothers celebration last weekend, someone on Facebook hosted a watch party called "TCM Broadcast Joseph Mankiewicz's CITIZEN KANE Watch Party" https://www.facebook.co...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... e=emb_logo

I believe Orson, even when I don't.

Hard to believe that a director of Fincher's quality and standing would subscribe to such an outdated and disproven theory, ignoring all of Robert Carringer's research. He'll have a lot to answer for if he does. It's his father's screenplay. As the Mankiewicz family has so often proved, blood is th...

Netflix films headed to Criterion; no word on ‘The Other Side of the Wind’
Would it be a Welles film if it wasn't a hard get?
I still have my Brazilian Chimes At Midnight, and the Criterion laser discs of The Magnificent Ambersons--and the player I bought to watch it.

I saw a Peter Sellers doc a few years ago and they posited an interesting view that he had a 'thing' about Welles. Either he was intimidated by him or he didn't like him, but he got kind of funny when Welles was about. Has anybody else heard this story? The version I heard said it started when Prin...

It has Hearst proclaiming that he never tried to destroy anyone personally, without contradiction.
And I thought that I could hear the distant, bitter laugh of Roscoe Arbuckle.