‘Lady from Shanghai’ outtakes online (video)
What appears to be five and a half minutes of outtakes from Orson Welles’ 1947 film “The Lady from Shanghai” shot in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Acapulco can be found online.
‘Lady from Shanghai’ added to National Film Registry
The National Film Registry, a list of films chosen for preservation because of their “cultural, historic and aesthetic” significance to the nation’s film heritage, has added Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai to its roster. The Librarian of Congress today announced 25 additions to the 30-year-old registry. Chosen with input from the National Film Preservation Board […]
Carlotta Films to release 4K restoration of ‘Lady From Shanghai’
The French-based distributor plans a 4K release on home video with extras.
‘John Wick,’ ‘LEGO Batman’ and ‘The Lady From Shanghai’
Of course, it is not the first time filmmakers have paid tribute to Welles’ memorable work.
Beatrice Welles to speak at Prescott, Traverse City film festivals in July
The film festival will take place July 26-31.
‘The Lady From Shanghai’ stage show part of Melbourne Fringe Festival
“The Lady From Shanghai” will be staged October 2-3.
‘The Lady From Shanghai’ Blu-ray due next week
Mill Creek Entertainment will issue a value-priced The Lady From Shanghai Blu-ray on March 17. The disc carries a suggested list price of $14.98. It is being offered for pre-order on Amazon.com for $8.99 and on DeepDiscount for $7.99. The upcoming Mill Creek release is half the list price of the TCM Vault issue from […]
Reviews: Newly revised Blu-ray release of ‘The Lady From Shanghai’
To a casual observer, the first thing that stands out is the film is slightly darker now than on the initial Blu-ray.
Review roundup: ‘The Lady From Shanghai’ on Blu-ray
Updated on June 4, 2014: TCM Shop has not only put out an improved version of The Lady from Shanghai on Blu-ray, there is also an exchange program for those who have already purchased the previous version. If interested, call the TCM Shop at (888) 982-6746 and tell them you want to exchange your copy. […]
‘The Lady From Shanghai’ Blu-ray arrives on January 27
The 4k remastered “The Lady From Shanghai” arrives as a Blu-ray/ DVD combo from TCM Vault on January 27. The video carries a $29.95 list price tag, but is available on the TCM website for $24.99. TCM Vault Collection titles are produced in small quantities for a limited time. According to the website, “In partnership […]
‘The Lady from Shanghai’ undergoes 4K restoration; London showing set
UPDATE (October 10, 2013): Grover Crisp, executive vice-president of film restoration at Sony, told Britain’s The Guardian that the studio is “planning to record out to a new negative for preservation purposes and a few prints. The film will also finally be released on Blu-ray shortly.” __________ “The Lady from Shanghai,” Orson Welles’ 1947 thriller […]
Celebrate a weekend with ORSON WELLES and his daughter in Cambridge, Mass. on June 6
CHRIS WELLES FEDER: My father thought Chimes at Midnight was his masterpiece, and I think that, as well. Falstaff was a role that was really made for him and I think his playing of that part is probably his greatest moment on the screen as an actor. When Prince Hal says, “I know thee not […]
Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth: “You are my life — my very life.”
On September 7, 1943, the 28-year old Orson Welles secretly whisked Rita Hayworth, 25, away from the Columbia studio lot after the day’s shooting on the Columbia musical, Cover Girl. At Santa Monica City Hall, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth were married in the presence of best man, Joseph Cotten. The marriage between Welles and […]
A Daughter remembers ORSON WELLES: A talk with Chris Welles Feder on her new book, IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW – Part One
Chris Welles Feder’s wonderful new book about her life and times with Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow has just been released by Agonquin Books. Chris Welles began her book tour in San Francisco with a showing of The Lady From Shanghai at the Rafael Theatre on November 2, and earlier that day Alex Fraser […]
Chris Welles Feder to launch her book tour for ‘In My father’s Shadow’ in San Francisco
Wellesnet is co-sponsoring Chris Welles Feder’s first appearance for her intimate new book about Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow at the Rafael Theatre, in San Rafael on Monday November 2. Ms. Welles-Feder has long been a supporter of Wellesnet and we do return those duties back to her as are right fit… The book […]
Wellesnet to co-sponsor the first appearance of Orson Welles eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder, talking about her new book, IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW in San Francisco on November 2 with a showing of THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
When you have a great figure of myth like Don Quixote, like Falstaff, it is a silhouette against the sky of all time… —Orson Welles to Juan Cobos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A beautifully written and moving memoir which should have a most special place in the extraordinary world of Orson Welles. –Peter Bogdanovich ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Orson Welles’s eldest […]
The original uncut Orson Welles script for THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI now available!
UPDATED: No longer available. The Blake Snyder screenwriting messageboard has removed the link to the draft script. ________ A very early draft of Orson Welles screenplay for The Lady From Shanghai is now available online. Thanks to Wellesnet member Alan for posting the link at the Wellesnet messageboard so everyone can enjoy it, and to […]
ORSON WELLES promotes his wife Rita Hayworth as THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI in 1946
The novel that became the basis for the Orson Welles movie, The Lady From Shanghai was written by Sherwood King in 1938. Welles claimed he saw it in a drug store in Boston in 1946, and that he called Harry Cohn before the opening of AROUND THE WORLD and asked Cohn to send him $40,000. […]
How Orson Welles praise of William Castle’s WHEN STRANGERS MARRY led to THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
In Orson Welles January 25th Almanac column he heaps praise on William Castle’s Monogram quickie, When Strangers Marry. So before posting that column, here is William Castle’s own entertaining version of how those glowing comments from Welles led to their collaboration on The Lady From Shanghai at Columbia Pictures, as taken from Castle’s autobiography, Step […]