A planned production of Adapting Don Quixote is being billed as the world’s first “supercut-opera,” as it will take previous adaptations — from theater, opera, films and song — and build a new work. In a narrative driven by Orson Welles’ attempt to bring Don Quixote to the screen, the audience will experience three completely […]
With decades of legal battles over, the negative for Orson Welles’ Don Quixote is in the hands of Oja Kodar.
The National Cinema Museum in Turin has a collection of Orson Welles papers that span the period from 1960 through 1976.
He was the son of noted Spanish-Mexican director Luis Buñuel.
“Take My Time” from Mark Stoermer, the bassist for The Killers.
The respected film scholar was Welles’ personal assistant on the film.
Chapters on It’s All True and Don Quixote are the result of what Müller describes as intensive research in archives.
The fate of “Don Quixote” remains uncertain.
The Don Quixote workprint will be screened in Paris later this month.
Welles’ youngest daughter fielded online questions.
It was screened at the Cinémathèque Française on June 29, 2015.
Cult filmmaker Jess Franco, director of more than 180 films, died today in Málaga,Spain, at the age of 82. Franco made his feature directing debut with “We Are 18 Years Old” in 1959. His final film, “Al Pereira Vs The Alligator Women,” opened last month in Spain. His other films include “Necronomicon,” (1967), “Count Dracula” […]
Ray Kelly, our Wellesnet man in Cambridge sends along this exclusive report on Stefan Drossler’s presentation of The Unknown Orson Welles on December 1, 2008 at the Harvard Film Archive
An essay on the making of Orson Welles “The Other Side of the Wind” can be found on the Legacy portion of Wellesnet. Please visit the “Don Quixote” page here.
