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It may not be as alluring as the authorship of Citizen Kane or meaning of “Rosebud,” but Orson Welles scholars have solved a Citizen Kane mystery that has confounded some since the film’s release 80 years ago: “What the heck is that thing in the back of Susan Alexander Kane’s bedroom?” The 1941 film...

Christie's has a 1938 script for The War of the Worlds radio broadcast on the auction block this week. The prestige auction house expects the radio script to fetch between $15,000 and $25,000 when the last bid is accepted on April 22, 2021 https://www.wellesnet.com/christies-war-worlds-script/

On Instagram, the Welles estate commented on the hunt: THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS was drastically recut and released by RKO Pictures in 1942 with a new ending that betrayed Orson Welles original vision. Nearly 80 years later, an effort is underway by @lostprintmovie to search for a copy of Welles’ o...

Going by the report made by the person quoted in Vanity Fair who said he found and ran the full version, it vanished soon afterwards. We don't know for certain if the archivist there actually ran it. The comment by Joshua Grossberg in Vanity Fair (April 8, 2010) was: “I think he actually projected ...

An updated edition of Joseph McBride’s book What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career has been announced by the University Press of Kentucky. The 400-page paperback is set for publication on January 11, 2022. In updating What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? for its fir...

There is this Guardian article from 2009, which sounds like it might be something of an update of the 2002: Orson Welles: The most glorious film failure of them all https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/22/orson-welles-citizen-kane Late to this thread, but I stumbled across The Guardian piece b...

Steve Paradis wrote:

atcolomb wrote:With all the nominations i hope it will be released on disc and i hope Criterion will get the rights to do that.

Only if Joe McBride does the commentary track.

I needed a laugh after hearing of the nominations. Thanks!

"Voodoo Macbeth," a production of the USC School of Cinematic Arts, delves into a historic moment in American theater. Read the Wellesnet review at https://www.wellesnet.com/voodoo-macbeth-review/ For those interested: "Voodoo Macbeth" can be seen screened online via paff.org th...

Extraordinarily rare takes of Elsa following Michael as he flees through Chinatown (with Welles' double thoroughly unconvincing - his gait is all wrong,) a few tantalizing seconds from what should be the long sequence of Michael and Grisby climbing the hill, and second-unit stuff of the Circe saili...

Well, maybe it will turn up in a library in Italy, like the lost footage from Too Much Johnson....? You never know. From what I understand the trunks included footage from Too Much Johnson , The Merchant of Venice , Portrait of Gina , and other material related to the processing of Nella terra di D...

Colmena wrote:I gather that this production also included segments on film.
Was this footage saved? If so, can it be seen? Where is it?

Sadly, the footage has been lost.

L’Assassinat d’Orson Welles ( The Assassination of Orson Welle s), a novel by French writer Jean-Pierre de Lucovitch, is one of five contenders for the Prix France Bleu. The prize, awarded to a French detective novel, will be bestowed in mid June 2021. https://www.wellesnet.com/assassination-orson-...

Dallas Video Fest brought Joseph McBride ("What Ever Happened to Orson Welles") and Thomas Schatz ("The Genius of the System") together to discuss "Mank."
https://vimeo.com/508887478

I see the YouTube footage has been taken and replaced with the message: Video unavailable This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Alexander Welles. Alexander "Sasha" Welles is Oja Kodar's nephew and represented her interests during the completion of The Other Side of...