Newport Beach Festival to Honor Welles

[Wellesnet]

Othello and Fade To Black double feature April 26th:
http://www.wellesnet.com/newport-beach- ... on-welles/

[L.W. Gordon]

The Newport Beach Film Festival's Welles Centennial events will be on Sunday, April 26th 2015 at The Island Cinema, in the Fashion Island Shopping Center in Newport Beach, Calif.

- At 11:00 am there will be a screening of Othello

- At 1:15 there will be a screening of the 2006 film "Fade to Black" starring Danny Huston as Orson Welles

- At 3:15 there will be a panel discussion

Here is the announcement:
www.newportbeachfilmfest.com/2015/orson ... entennial/

[Roger Ryan]

Bravo on including a superb Welles film alongside a tangentially-related thriller featuring a fictional Welles as part of the Newport Beach Festival. I do find the OTHELLO credit listing in your website announcement to be misleading, however. Doris Dowling is given ninth billing in the film itself as opposed to second billing in the announcement, and, while they supposedly appear uncredited in the background, I have yet to identify Joseph Cotten or Joan Fontaine as being in the film at all! While the marquee value is significantly lower than Mr. Cotten and Ms. Fontaine, I think it is only fair to credit Micheál MacLiammóir ("Iago") and Suzanne Cloutier ("Desdemona") in their place.

[Wellesnet]

Matt Coker of Newport Beach offers 100 Welles facts in anticipation of their April 26th double feature:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2 ... welles.php

[Wellesnet]

Anyone make it to this?

Here's a funny review of "Fade To Black" in the Guardian:

On paper this must have looked a neat idea: a wildly fictionalised account of a skid-row Orson Welles, up to his neck in political skulduggery while shooting a third-rate picture in post-war Italy. Best of all is the casting. The role of one great director falls to Danny Huston, the son of another, who comes weaving through the action with his theatrical bearing and disreputable air, a cigar between his teeth and his pockets rattling with slimming pills; every inch the faded Hollywood idol. But this shaggy dog outing is all fur and no tale. In the course of his misadventures, Welles is almost coshed by a poker, almost shot, almost knifed, almost killed in a head-on collision, and yet these narrow scrapes are leading us nowhere. Crucially there is no tension to them either. We know Welles is never truly in danger, because we know that he lives to fight another day, voice lager commercials and crop up in The Muppet Movie.