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 […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH I’ve just received a copy of Catherine Benamou’s labor of love book about the making of Orson Welles’ own unfinished labor of love, It’s All True. Although I’ve only had a chance to scan through it briefly, I can safely attest it’s a must have volume for any serious Welles aficionado. Firstly, […]
Here is Peter Bogdanovich’s reply to the interview with Charles Higham, below, that appeared in The New York Times on September 17, 1970. Mr. Higham’s interview, it should be noted, was conducted with himself. In other words, he wrote both the questions and the answers, which is of course, why it is now so apparent […]
What promises to be the definitive book on Orson Welles IT’S ALL TRUE will be arriving in March, 2007 from the UC California Press. Here are some advance details: ++++++++++ It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey � By Catherine L. Benamou � U.C. Berkeley Press – 416 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 39 b/w […]