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[Wellesnet]

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scri ... elles.html

[Jay]

The restoration that Carlotta is releasing to theatres will be playing in my area, and I'm excited to see it. Does anyone know if it will be screened in 35mm or via a DCP? I'm hoping for 35mm.

[Roger Ryan]

My understanding is the new restoration was an HD scan and clean-up of the 1992 restoration so I think it only exists as a digital file, therefore DCP. According to "Le Chiffre", the Chicago run was from DCP, so I would assume all engagements will be.

[Wellesnet]

Mike White's remarkable "Projection Booth" website takes a look at Welles's "Othello", with special guest Joseph McBride:
http://projection-booth.blogspot.com

[Le Chiffre]

Here's something interesting on eBay. If any of our French-speaking friends would care to translate this brief letter from Jaques Ibert to Welles, we'd greatly appreciate it:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/JACQUES-IBERT-A ... 5b130cce77

[Wellesnet]

According to Welles scholar Esteve Riambau, "Campanadas a Medianoche", the Spanish-language version of Chimes at Midnight, premiered in Barcelona on December 23rd, 1965, 50 years ago today. Chimes itself had its world premiere a few months later at the Cannes film festival, after a few post=production changes.


B-style:

[drieakko]

Complete English subtitles for the restored edition of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT are available at opensubtitles.org here:

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitl ... idnight-en

The infamous audio does not really have significant quality issues as such, but Welles himself and several other actors just seem to have forgotten Shakespeare wrote for the stage and mumbling his complicated verses in a realistic manner makes them very hard to follow.

If you spot any problems with the subtitles, please be free to comment here.

[Wellesnet]

Thanks much, Drieakko.

[Wellesnet]

Campanadas on youtube, with some interesting differences from the English language version, particularly in terms of music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVwLXc3tGVI

[tadao]

BBC Four broadcast All The World's A Screen: Shakespeare on Film last week as part of this year's Bardic 400th anniversary celebrations. It begins with the odd thesis that Olivier's Henry V was the first successful Shakespeare film, but does provide a reasonable whistle-stop tour of Shakespeare on screen from the silent era onwards. No way of fitting everything into an hour, and they left out several of my personal favourites, including Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and his recent Cymbeline, as well as the Ian McKellen/Richard Loncraine Richard III which is receiving a welcome revival for the anniversary, and Branagh's Hamlet. Welles's Shakespeare cycle gets a fair amount of screen time, although without any interesting analysis or behind-the-scenes material. Worth a look anyway for Shakespeare afficionados or those looking to compare and contrast Welles's work with other directors, before it goes offline on May 24th 2016.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0791p2k

[Wellesnet]

The website says it's only available to play in the UK. Oh well.

[Wellesnet]

Literature/Film Quarterly has allowed us to publish this fascinating article by Benjamin Hilb, entitled, "Intermediality in Orson Welles’s Shakespearean Collage: Competing Narrative Modes and Media in ‘Chimes at Midnight’":
http://www.wellesnet.com/intermediality ... -midnight/

[magadizer]

Hi everyone, I just posted a few thoughts about OTHELLO on my blog. I would be honored if you get a chance to take a look.
Thanks,
Josh Wilson
http://fforfilms.net/2017/10/19/othello