Orson Welles movies still unavailable on Blu-ray
As the home video market moves from Blu-ray to 4K UHD, it’s worth noting that for U.S. fans there are still several Welles-directed titles unavailable on Blu-ray.
Joseph McBride on updating ‘What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?’
“What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career” is a critical look at the projects undertaken by the late director in his final years. The new edition includes the discovery of “Too Much Johnson” and completion of “The Other Side of the Wind.”
Orson Welles’ ‘Too Much Johnson’ now online with score, commentary
Orson Welles’ long-believed lost footage shot for the 1938 stage comedy “Too Much Johnson” was preserved by the George Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department and first shown in 2013.
Legacy Theatre: Performances return to stage where ‘Too Much Johnson’ was born
The Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut, where Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre staged the ill-fated Too Much Johnson in 1938, has been reborn as the Legacy Theatre.
Renovation set at Stony Creek Theatre, site of ‘Too Much Johnson’
The long-awaited renovation of the Stony Creek Theatre, where Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre staged the ill-fated Too Much Johnson in 1938, will get underway Thursday, June 6, in Branford, Connecticut. Once a chapel-turned-movie house near the Thimble Islands, the Stony Creek Theatre became a home for community theater and summer stock productions during […]
Italian television offering Orson Welles rarities prior Venice Film Festival
Italian public television’s RAI 3 will pay tribute to Orson Welles in the days leading up to the 75th annual Venice Film Festival and world premiere of his recently completed movie The Other Side of the Wind. The broadcast programming, except a showing of The Magnificent Ambersons, focuses chiefly on Welles’ connection to Italy and his many […]
Massimiliano Studer on ‘Too Much Johnson,’ Orson Welles’ lost film
By RAY KELLY Compared to other Orson Welles projects, relatively little has been written about Too Much Johnson, the Mercury Theatre’s ill-fated 1938 stage comedy, which would have included his first use of film in a commercial project. A two-week tryout of Too Much Johnson commenced at the Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut in […]
‘Considering Joseph Cotten’ at Museum of Modern Art
Films are scheduled from Jan. 3 through Feb. 14.
Video: Superb fan-edit of ‘Too Much Johnson’ footage
Orson Welles intended the footage to be used in a 1938 stage show.
FormaCinema to screen lost ‘Portrait of Gina’ excerpt, Pordenone treasures
The screening is set for November 4 in Milan.
After ‘Too Much Johnson’ and ‘Merchant of Venice,’ what will be unearthed next?
What other lost films are waiting to be unearthed.
Mr. Bongo talks ‘Chimes at Midnight,’ ‘Immortal Story’ and ‘Too Much Johnson’
The discs will be released June 29 in England.