‘Orson Welles: Banda de um Homem Só,’ to be launched at Brazil festival
Chapters on It’s All True and Don Quixote are the result of what Müller describes as intensive research in archives.
‘Follow El Rey!’ – Spanish Welles symposium traces his footsteps on ‘Chimes at Midnight’
The Cardona event was run by Esteve Riambau, director of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
Filmoteca de Catalunya to recall ‘Chimes at Midnight,’ ‘The Deep’
Read the program for the international seminar.
Filmoteca de Catalunya unveils mammoth Orson Welles tribute
The event will run May 6 – June 30.
Joseph McBride talks ‘Orson Welles 100,’ Film Forum series
Nearly three dozen movies will be shown over a five-week span.
Rebecca Welles: Unraveling the life of the daughter of Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
She talked about her parents in a lost 1972 interview.
Chris Welles Feder narrates online short ‘Welcome to Rose Cottage’
Sixty six years after she made her big screen debut in Orson Welles’ adaptation of “Macbeth,” the late director’s eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, is lending her talent to lighter fare. Feder is the narrator of “Welcome to Rose Cottage” – a six-minute short she describes as a spoof of “the absurdly over-the-top real estate […]
Chris Welles Feder recalls ‘War of the Worlds’ as 75th anniversary nears
By RAY KELLY Chris Welles Feder, the eldest daughter of Orson Welles, is sharing her thoughts on her father’s “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast as the media notes the 75th anniversary on October 30. Feder has been interviewed for public television, syndicated newspaper and national magazine retrospectives. And she has been kind enough […]
Chris Welles Feder to introduce Manhattan screening of ‘Touch of Evil’ on Friday
UPDATED: Here is portion of Chris Welles’ Feder’s remarks: The 1998 reconstructed version of “Touch of Evil” will be shown at the Rubin Museum of Art on 17th Street off Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Friday, June 14, 2013.
Chris Welles Feder to guest on Irish radio show recalling Orson Welles
By RAY KELLY Newstalk 106-108 FM, Ireland’s independent national radio station, will feature an hour-long look at the life and career of Orson Welles on Sunday, December 9. Included on the award-winning “Talking History” broadcast will be Welles’ oldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. “Talking History,” hosted by Trinity College Dublin’s Patrick Geogheagan, airs at 7 […]
Chris Welles Feder and Christian McKay unveil a plaque celebrating Orson Welles’s Mercury Theater (1937 – 1941) on Broadway
Wellesnet is pleased to be able to share this exclusive report from Chris Welles Feder, who attended the New York premiere and after party of Richard Linklater’s new movie, Me and Orson Welles, due to the efforts of your obedient servant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ME AND ORSON WELLES premiere By Chris Welles Feder ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The premiere was […]
A Daughter remembers ORSON WELLES: A talk with Chris Welles Feder on her new book, IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW – Part One
Chris Welles Feder’s wonderful new book about her life and times with Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow has just been released by Agonquin Books. Chris Welles began her book tour in San Francisco with a showing of The Lady From Shanghai at the Rafael Theatre on November 2, and earlier that day Alex Fraser […]
Chris Welles Feder to launch her book tour for ‘In My father’s Shadow’ in San Francisco
Wellesnet is co-sponsoring Chris Welles Feder’s first appearance for her intimate new book about Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow at the Rafael Theatre, in San Rafael on Monday November 2. Ms. Welles-Feder has long been a supporter of Wellesnet and we do return those duties back to her as are right fit… The book […]
Wellesnet to co-sponsor the first appearance of Orson Welles eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, talking about her new book, IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW in San Francisco on November 2 with a showing of THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
When you have a great figure of myth like Don Quixote, like Falstaff, it is a silhouette against the sky of all time… —Orson Welles to Juan Cobos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A beautifully written and moving memoir which should have a most special place in the extraordinary world of Orson Welles. –Peter Bogdanovich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Orson Welles’s eldest […]
Wellesnet Exclusive: Signed copies of Chris Welles Feder’s “The Movie Director”
I’m happy to report that Chris Welles Feder, Orson Welles eldest daughter, has agreed to offer readers of Wellesnet a limited number of signed copies of her beautifully written book of poems about her father,”The Movie Director.” The book was privately published in a limited edition in 2002, which is probably whymost Welles fans may […]
Chris Welles Feder’s “The Movie Director”
I just received a copy of Chris Welles Feder’s book of fictional poems entitled The Movie Director and I was struck by several of the pieces which form a “wonderful portrait of Chris Welles’ father – although it’s a portrait that the author stresses is in many places entirely fictional. Below is one of the […]