"Orson Welles" - 1950 monograph by Andre Bazin

[Wellesnet]

Thanks to Greg Boozell for this: Coming March, 2015 - "Orson Welles" - a 1950 monograph by André Bazin, with a portrait of Orson Welles by Jean Cocteau:

http://www.caboosebooks.net/orson-welles

"This is the volume that Jonathan Rosenbaum now wishes he had known about before translating a later monograph on Welles by Bazin, foisted on him by François Truffaut and of decidedly lesser interest. Here the young Bazin, 31 years old at the time of its writing, lays out an early sketch of his theory of cinematic découpage at the heart of his radical assessment of Welles, even before the director’s European career began." [/quote]

[Wellesnet]

If anyone has any info on whether this was actually released or not, please let us know.

[Tony]

I don't know if I posted this info before, but Timothy Barnard of Caboose Books (who published the translation/version of "What is Cinema?" in 2018) wrote me that he had decided to not publish an English translation of Bazin's book on Welles because he felt that there was not that much difference between the 1950 and the 1958 versions, and that in his new WIC Barnard has published two previously unpublished articles by Bazin on Welles from the late 40s which cover much the same ground as the 1950 text. In the end, Barnard decided that a new version/translation of WIC was needed more than a translation of the 1950 book, even though he had advertised the coming publication of the latter for some time on his website. As I'm sure I've mentioned before, in my opinion Bazin is by far the best writer on Welles, and new translations and previously unpublished articles in English by him are most welcome.