HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY TO THE GREAT ORSON WELLES!!

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http://www.wellesnet.com/happy-100th-bi ... on-welles/

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Nice blog entry by Brian Camp on the OW Centennial:
https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/201 ... #more-2502

Video- Birthday greetings from Maurice LeMarche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHlqKJs6dA8

Video- Jonathon Rosenbaum on Welles at 100:
https://vimeo.com/126493045

Article- Catherine Benamou on "Orson Welles at 100":
http://blog.oup.com/2015/05/orson-welle ... -birthday/

BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/article ... les-at-100

WSJ:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/on-his-100t ... 1430778332

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Huffpo on "Orson Welles: A Misunderstood Genius":
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/murtaza-al ... 77708.html

Nothing Tragic About Orson Welles:
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/ar ... ciwoPldXCc

30 Years Gone, and Oh, How We Still Love Orson Welles
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/it ... s_20150730

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Good overview of centenary DVD releases:
http://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/dvd/orso ... son-welles

Sounds and Fury:
http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandf ... -kane.html

A Passing Word On Orson Welles And Citizen Kane

Over the decades, we've viewed Citizen Kane some two- or three-dozen times and each time it seems as fresh as our first viewing. We viewed it again last night and it still raises the hair on the back of our neck, even at times brings us to tears so consummate a work of art is it.
How was it possible for a 24-yr-old, filmmaking-ignorant Orson Welles to create such a film — his very first — right out of the box, so to speak? It's akin to, say, Richard Wagner creating a Tristan und Isolde the very first time he put pen to manuscript paper. Impossible, of course. Yet what Welles accomplished in creating Citizen Kane is its rough equivalent for he both shaped and controlled every aspect of the film's making from its scripting to its actual filming and editing.
Clearly, Welles's accomplishment required an authentic cinematic genius — a genius of the most prodigious sort for which no explanation is sufficient or can even be conjectured. Whatever else Welles may have been he was indisputably that and in our estimation is to world cinema what Bach is to music and Mozart to opera.

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Very good tribute to Welles's 100th by Alex Ross in The New Yorker. Check out the videos at the bottom:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/07/the-shadow

"If one Orson Welles myth deserves to die, it is that he was a wasteful filmmaker. His career is, in fact, a sustained demonstration of the art of making something from nothing. It might be time to stop imagining what might have been and instead to focus on what remains. These tidy parables of rise and fall, of genius unrealized, may say more about latter-day America than they do about the ever-beleaguered, never-defeated Welles."

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Finally, last year, a team led by Bogdanovich and the producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza secured the Astrophore interest and seemed to win agreement from Kodar and other parties. There have been further delays, but preparations continue. In the world of Welles, nothing ever goes according to plan.

Very good article overall, but I had hoped for more inside info from The New Yorker on this crucial issue.

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FIGHTING GRAVITY: ORSON WELLES AT 100 by Scott Ross:
https://scottross79.wordpress.com/2015/ ... /#comments