Alec Baldwin and William Friedkin will serve as an executive producer and advisor, respectively on “The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons.”
Two groupings of “Ambersons” reels (14 and 10), as well as 10 reels of “Journey Into Fear,” were shipped to Welles in Brazil so he could edit the film. Filmmaker Josh Grossberg hopes the footage, if it has survived the past 80 years, is in the hands of private collectors.
The Culver City Historical Society discovered some of the elaborate stained glass windows from “The Magnificent Ambersons” mansion set.
An ambitious plan to reconstruct the 132-minute preview version of Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons” using animation to replace the cut scenes is underway.
By RAY KELLY If not for the COVID-19 pandemic, Josh Grossberg would be in Rio de Janeiro right now — hunting for Orson Welles’ fabled cut of The Magnificent Ambersons. A journalist and filmmaker, Grossberg has been tracking down leads since first traveling to Brazil in December 1994 in search of the 131-minute version that […]
The French newspaper Le Monde has published an update on the hunt for Orson Welles’ fabled original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons. Le Monde interviewed Josh Grossberg, who began his quest for the lost Ambersons footage when he was a 21-year-old film student at Northwestern University in Chicago in 1995 — and not given up. […]
For those who have not closely followed the Wellesnet Message Board in recent weeks, you might have missed that an effort is underway to reconstruct Orson Welles’ original vision for The Magnificent Ambersons. There have been noble efforts in the past, most notably those of Roger Ryan and a second project headed by Mike Teal […]
Hot on the heels of The Criterion Collection’s 4K restoration of The Magnificent Ambersons, movie historian Joseph Egan has unveiled a website totally dedicated to Orson Welles’ sophomore Hollywood release. A four-month undertaking, The Complete Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons seeks to take full advantage of the website format, Egan said. “I wanted it to show that it […]
Library of America and Penguin Random House will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington with a new edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles adapted Tarkington’s acclaimed 1918 novel for his second film in 1942. Later, Welles said that his father, Richard, an inventor of bicycle lamps, had been friends […]
By RAY KELLY For much of Wellesnet’s history, two topics have dominated conversation here: The completion of The Other Side of the Wind and the desire to see a superb DVD (later Blu-ray) release of The Magnificent Ambersons. This month, Welles fans finally got both. The Criterion Collection today released its long-awaited domestic Blu-ray and […]
Update: The release has been delayed to November 27. ______ It’s official! The Criterion Collection will release a 4K restoration of Orson Welles’ sophomore Hollywood offering, The Magnificent Ambersons, on Blu-ray and DVD on November 20. Loaded with extras, the single disc Blu-ray carries a $39.95 suggested list price, while the two-DVD set is priced […]
Discovering Orson Welles author Jonathan Rosenbaum posted on Facebook last night that he recently recorded an audio commentary for the Criterion Collection’s upcoming release of The Magnificent Ambersons. He said he was joined by fellow film scholar James Naremore (The Magic World of Orson Welles) on the commentary track. Rosenbaum also revealed the release is […]
By RAY KELLY The Criterion Collection is apparently teasing fans about a future release of Orson Welles’ classic The Magnificent Ambersons on Blu-ray and DVD. The notoriously tight-lipped Criterion has yet to publicly comment on an Ambersons release. However, the pun-happy mystery doodlers at work on the company newsletter depicted two “&” symbols against a […]
The silent film version was released in 1925.
The Blu-ray was issued by IVC – an independent ‘art house’ label out of Japan.
It is set for release on January 29, 2016.
Nearly three dozen movies will be shown over a five-week span.
The full interviews can be found on the organization’s website.
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 […]
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 […]
