A full year before the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles’ birth, the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque has something special planned for fans of the late director. TIFF Cinematheque will feature a special screening of the recently rediscovered silent footage of Too Much Johnson, as part of a mini-retrospective entitled Orson Welles: Lost & Found […]
In recent years, an increasing number of unfilmed screenplays by Orson Welles have turned up online in pdf or text formats. Just as rare videos have popped up on YouTube, these scripts have found their way to the popular website Scribd.com, where they can be read or downloaded. Wellesnet.com has combed through the Scribd archives […]
By MIKE WHITE In an episode two years in the making, The Projection Booth podcast released their coverage of The Magnificent Ambersons. In his follow-up to Citizen Kane, Orson Welles adapted Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence. Welles famously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final […]
