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The BBC Radio 4 play Voodoo Macbeth is available online at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rlm1

Very much enjoyed the podcast and I was so glad that Porchlight Music Theatre were smart enough to bring you in as resident expert. Thank you for doing it and sharing your great knowledge and research. I wish there had been time to go more in depth into the production history, but I was glad that t...

Le Chiffre wrote:He was good in the film. Did anyone interview him about the experience? If not, too bad.

I made an attempt in 2019 and had no luck reaching him.
Josh Karp had only kind things to say about him. He tracked him down for his book Orson Welles's Last Movie.

Wellesnet is widely regarded by Welles scholars as the leading online source of information about the life, career and work of Orson Welles. The website, founded in March 2001 by Jeff Wilson, has been a resource credited by documentarians and authors. Ray Kelly is the owner and administrator of the ...

Orson Welles’ groundbreaking all-Black stage production of Macbeth in Harlem in 1936 is the subject of an upcoming BBC Radio 4 play.
https://www.wellesnet.com/voodoo-macbeth-drama-to-air-on-bbc-radio-4/

It will be interesting to see it when it comes out in 2022 and for Amberson's anniversary too. I have gotten some interesting feedback. Most people are curious to see what comes of it. Some people would rather just have the studio edit than see any kind of approximation. There are those revolted by...

Brian Rose's ambitious plan to reconstruct THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS to better resemble Orson Welles’ original vision is underway with animation and voice actors set to approximate the scenes cut by RKO Pictures before the film’s release in 1942. https://www.wellesnet.com/magnificent-ambersons-reco...

We tallied 544,224 visitors in 2020, who were responsible for 2.3 million page views and 6.8 million hits. Our most read stories centered on the Netflix release of "Mank," particularly Joseph McBride's essay; the making of "Hopper/Welles" and rapper Logic's album "No Pressur...

Came across a website that is selling dvd's of The Other Side of the Wind. Pakistan based website DVD Planet Store is selling copies of the movie on dvd disc for $15 plus shipping. As to how they got the rights to sell the movie on disc is anybody's guess and how good is the picture & sound? No...

NYT: The two narrative lines in “Mank” never make coherent, interesting sense, no matter how Fincher jams them together. The big news during Herman’s MGM years is the industry’s (and Hearst’s) propagandistic drive to torpedo the writer Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California. The real ...

Decider has an interview with Peter Bogdanovich about the authorship of KANE in light of the release of MANK.
https://decider.com/2020/12/10/peter-bogdanovich-who-really-deserves-credit-for-citizen-kane/

One thing I found curious: Houseman and Mank are working on the Kane script while Welles is at the studio doing make-up tests for HEART OF DARKNESS. I had always thought that the Kane script was done in a slight atmosphere of desperation because HOD and Welles's other proposed projects had already ...

Film historian Joseph McBride revisits the authorship of “Citizen Kane” after screening David Fincher's "Mank." He examines the movie’s flawed script, and how some lesser filmmakers are intimidated by Orson Welles and feel the need to tear him down. https://www.wellesnet.com/mank-welles-mc...

If this has been posted on Wellesnet before (and I'm guessing it has been, but simply slipped my mind) please feel free to ignore. If not: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/125173-orson-welles-a-la-cinematheque-francaise-pierre-andre-boutang-guy-seligmann-1983/ We did during the summer https:/...