U.S. audiences will finally have their chance to see the Brazilian documentary A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft) at three festivals in the coming weeks. The film was selected for the official competitions of the 14th Brazilian Film Festival of New York and the 24th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, as well as the […]
A Jangada de Welles (Welles’ Raft) will be screened at the CineOP film festival next month. The CineOp festival is set for September 3-7 in Ouro Preto, Brazil. The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira during […]
A script about Orson Welles’ ill-fated trip to Brazil is a quarter-finalist in WriteMovies, a contest that has been revealing screenwriters since 1999. It’s All Lies was written by Zé Dassilva, a Brazilian Emmy International winning screenwriter for Imperio, created by Aguinaldo Silva and chosen the best telenovela worldwide in 2015. The title, It’s All Lies, […]
Out of print in recent years, the 1993 documentary Its All True: Based on an Unfinished Film By Orson Welles was re-released on DVD this week by Paramount Home Video. The documentary recalls Welles’ ill-fated wartime project with filmmakers Myron Meisel, Bill Krohn and the late Richard Wilson reconstructing one his three planned segments, Four […]
The Brazilian documentary A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft) will have its European premiere later this month at the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival in France. The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, Brazil; the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira during […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles’ doomed movie on the plight of impoverished Brazilian fishermen is the subject of a new documentary, A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft). The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira […]
The restored DCP is being screened courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
He was chosen by Orson Welles to co-star in the ill-fated 1943 film “It’s All True.”
Several factors contributed to the demise of It’s All True.
He was the oldest of five children by José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.
The festival ran for 10 days in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Cinemateca Brasileira will pay tribute to Orson Welles in April as one of many events worldwide marking the centennial of the late filmmaker’s birth. The annual It’s All True Festival, named after Orson Welles’ first documentary, the unfinished It’s All True, runs April 9-19 in São Paulo and April 10-19 in Rio de Janeiro. “Three celebrations […]
The events will take place in January and February.
The collection includes 22 photos taken by Chico Albuquerque.
By MIKE TEAL Over the course of their 24 years together on television, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became the best-known movie critics in the nation, if not the world. They began as fierce rivals for competing newspapers in Chicago, but rose to fame together, reviewing the latest theatrical films on public television starting in […]
By RAY KELLY Welles scholars now have access to the exciting additions to the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan. The first collection, “The Orson Welles – Chris Welles Feder Collection,” is a gift from Welles’ eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. It includes photographs of the family and letters from Welles to his […]
IT’S ALL TRUE You can now Download 12 selections from the many songs Orson Welles was considering using for the original soundtrack to The Story of Samba episode of It’s All True. Thanks to João Perdigão / Canhotagem for providing this valuable link and compiling these vintage songs from the Brazilian artists Orson Welles was […]
Catherine L. Benamou, the curator of the Univ. of Michigan Welles collection recently wrote to tell Wellesnet that the Richard Wilson–Orson Welles papers are now open for viewing and research by Welles scholars and all other interested parties. You can access the online site to see an overview of the 62 boxes of material on […]
Producer Greg Boozell has sent along this link for Wellesnet viewers to preview a very informative interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum condcted by Mara Tapp, which concentrates on four of Orson Welles lesser viewed films: MR. ARKADIN, DON QUIXOTE, FALSTAFF and F FOR FAKE. It also goes into some detail about Welles pioneering work with Afro-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, which really seems to be the smoking […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH In conjunction with the arrival of Catherine Benamou’s long awaited and fascinating new book on Orson Welles’ It’s All True, I thought I’d post a series of memos and press articles I’ve been compiling related to the making of Welles unfinished masterpiece. While I was reviewing Ms. Benamou’s book and re-reading these […]
