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 […]
Joseph McBride’s new book on Orson Welles features two chapters on the saga of the making, and unmaking of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND. It’s the most comprehensive coverage of this unfinished Welles masterpiece that has yet been seen. In the book Mr. McBride also goes into some detail about the early problems Welles […]
áIn 2002, Catherine Benamou wrote the following for the Brazilian documentary film festival called “It’s All True”: á”Besides some excerpts, which can be cherished in a copy that this Festival will screen, there is a larger text and story to be rescued from the cans stacked up in the UCLA collection and yet labeled “It’s […]
According to Jonathan Rosenbaum,�a book�collecting his articles and pieces on Welles should be out next summer.� Additionally, he notes that a very important French book on Welles published by Cahiers du Cinema�should be out�this November entitled “Orson Welles au Travail” (Orson Welles at Work), with an English edition�possibly forthcoming next year; the authors are Francois […]
