The preview trailer for Oja Kodar’s 1989 film ‘Jaded’

“Jaded,” the 1989 cinematic effort by Orson Welles’ partner Oja Kodar has never been released on home video and has remained unseen by most Welles fans. Now, the trailer for the film, which was included in a Gary Graver documentary, is available online. The preview trailer heavily promotes her connection to Welles and utilizes scenes […]

Oja Kodar interview on Hungarian website

By RAY KELLY Interviews with Orson Welles’ longtime love and collaborator Oja Kodar are rare to come by, but the Hungarian website mozinet.hu recently spoke with the Croatian actress-writer. Sadly, none of the six questions asked of Kodar delved into the status of “The Other Side of the Wind” or any of Welles’ unfinished film […]

Orson Welles Family Album added to Wellesnet

We are proud to welcome a new addition to Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Family Album. This new web page is a generous sampling of photographs of Welles throughout the years with his three wives: Virginia Nicolson, Rita Hayworth and Paola Mori; his three daughters, Christopher, Rebecca and Beatrice; collaborator-companion Oja Kodar; and assorted friends, lovers […]

THE DREAMERS: Orson Welles poetic masterpiece

Here’s a rare�treat.� A long scene from Orson Welles script of… � ��� THE DREAMERS (1982)� Directed by Orson Welles. Screenplay by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar, based on The Dreamers and Echoes by Isak Dinesen.� Cinematography (in color) by Gary Graver.� Music by Erik Satie.� � Starring Orson Welles as Marcus Kleek� Oja Kodar […]

Oja Kodar on Orson Welles’ DON QUIXOTE

Since the first public glimpse of Orson Welles Don Quixote was presented thirty years ago this month at the Cannes film festival�less than a year after Welles had died�I thought it would be interesting to present some background material on that very first public showing. The Don Quixote footage shown at Cannes was apparently entrusted […]