Happy Welles Day!

[Steve Paradis]

[Wich2]

The Founder of this Feast.

But the "After KANE, a sad case" canard is just that. Not all of his stuff is gold; but - to the end - it's always worth the time.

(And that doesn't even count lots of Stage stuff we can't experience now.)

Bless you, Orson!

- Craig

[Terry]

Simon Callow: "Orson Welles: The Genius Who Failed," posted for our man's birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMRiMXckMs

[Le Chiffre]

Callow has an ambivalent attitude towards Welles, but it's pretty amazing to watch him talk and talk about him for over two hours, even if some of it is inaccurate. I was especially struck by his opinion that THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND should have been left alone and not finished; that only Welles could have found a way to pull it all together. It will be interesting to hear how he expands on this in his upcoming 4th Welles volume. This interview seems partially like a preview of that.

[atcolomb]

"The Genius Who Failed"...is a awful title. I do not considered Orson and what he has done as failures.