Has unseen footage from ‘The Deep’ surfaced?
The image is reportedly from “a 16mmm positive duplicating reel that contains underwater shooting tests with Welles… and Oja Kodar” for the unfinished movie “The Deep.”
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.
Exploring the Hemingway / Welles connection
One of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers and one of its finest filmmakers enjoyed what the latter described as “a very strange relationship.”
Filip Jan Rymzsa, Bob Murawski to discuss ‘Hopper/Welles’ in online talk
The 58th edition of the New York Film Festival will present a series of free online chats with filmmakers later this month, including a talk featuring the team behind Hopper/Welles. On Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m., NYFF58 will offer an online talk focusing on two festival offerings: Hopper/Welles and Raul Ruiz’ The Tango of […]
‘Hopper/Welles’ to be shown at Queens drive-in movie theater
Hopper/Welles will get its first theatrical showing in the United States at the Queens Drive-in on Friday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. The showing is part of the 58th New York Film Festival, which had previously announced streamed-only showings of the movie, which was directed by Orson Welles and stars Dennis Hopper. Hopper/Welles is comprised […]
‘Hopper/Welles’ — The Orson Welles film* we never expected (review)
By RAY KELLY Should Hopper/Welles be considered an Orson Welles film? The documentary, which premiered this week at the Venice International Film Festival and will be streamed at the upcoming the New York Film Festival, is not in the final form Welles intended. Rather, it is a fragment of a project that never developed beyond […]
‘Hopper/Welles’: The New Hollywood Strikes Back (review)
By MASSIMILIANO STUDER It’s important that producer Filip Jan Rymsza find a distributor for this gem that has emerged from the film vault of The Other Side of the Wind; allowing Italian cinephiles to see and understand the New Hollywood environment of 1970 — a documentary that Ciro Giorgini would certainly have done everything to […]
‘Hopper/Welles’ to be streamed to NYFF ticket holders
Hopper/Welles will be streamed to New York Film Festival ticket holders for its U.S. premiere at the 58th festival later this month. Mindful of coronavirus restrictions, NYFF58 offerings this year will be shown at either drive-in movie theaters or — as in the case of Hopper/Welles — streamed for home viewing over a secure online […]
Inside ‘Hopper/Welles’ with Filip Jan Rymsza and Bob Murawski
By RAY KELLY After laboring nine years to bring The Other Side of the Wind to the screen, it’s understandable that producer Filip Jan Rymsza was not looking to embark on another Orson Welles project. But time and a nudge from a friend led to Hopper/Welles, which will have its world premiere next week during […]
‘Rider’ — unfinished Oliver Reed, Orson Welles movie
Britain’s The Oldie magazine recently dug out an interesting piece written a few years back by the late filmmaker Andrew Sinclair (Under Milk Wood) recalling an unfinished 1970s project starring Orson Welles and Oliver Reed. Sinclair was set to direct Reed, Welles and Oja Kodar in a movie called Rider. He had previously worked with […]
Orson Welles budget for his aborted ‘Cradle Will Rock’ film
By RAY KELLY Among Orson Welles’ final unrealized projects, perhaps none came closer to fruition than The Cradle Will Rock. The autobiographical film would have been a retelling of Welles’ fabled 1937 Federal Theatre Project production of the controversial Marc Blitzstein musical on the labor movement. The government pulled support for the left-wing play before […]
Unproduced Orson Welles ‘Surinam’ script to be detailed by Matthew Asprey Gear at literary conference
By RAY KELLY The story surrounding a little known, and unfilmed, Orson Welles screenplay will be explained at a forthcoming literary conference in London. Matthew Asprey Gear will deliver his paper, Surinam: Orson Welles’s Unproduced Victory Screenplay, at the Joseph Conrad Society Conference at the University Women’s Club at Mayfair on Sunday, July 7. Surinam […]
Restored ‘It’s All True’ documentary to screen at MoMA
The restored DCP is being screened courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
Handsome ‘Orson Welles in Hvar’ looks at filming ‘The Deep’ (review)
By RAY KELLY The Deep, a commercial thriller filmed, but never completed, by the late Orson Welles is the subject of Orson Welles in Hvar, a wonderful limited edition book out of Croatia. Assembled by photographer-writer Dusko Kovacic and film historian and documentarian Daniel Rafaelic (The Other Side of Welles), the text is presented in Croatian […]
Behind-the-scenes on the completion of Orson Welles’ ‘The Other Side of the Wind’
By RAY KELLY On a sunny Monday afternoon a week before Christmas, Peter Bogdanovich, Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall gathered in an editing suite at Tribeca West in Los Angeles to view the progress made on the completion of The Other Side of the Wind. As his colleagues arrived, Rymsza explained that editor Bob Murawski […]
Rian Johnson: I’ve seen ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ twice, and need to see it a dozen more times
One of the first filmmakers to see The Other Side of the Wind says he was “gobsmacked” by what the late Orson Welles accomplished more than 40 years ago. Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) has seen a 117-minute edit — minus its Michel Legrand score — twice, including a “friends and family screening” in Santa Monica, […]
Orson Welles assistant Dorian Bond pens ‘Me and Mr. Welles’
Dorian Bond, who worked as a personal assistant for Orson Welles during a year-long stint 50 years ago, has written a book recounting those days, Me and Mr. Welles. Bond was a 22-year-old film school student when he was hired by Welles’ longtime private secretary, Ann Rogers, to deliver ten 400-foot rolls of 35mm film, and […]
Netflix may skip Cannes; ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ would debut elsewhere
By RAY KELLY It is increasingly unlikely that Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind ― or any Netflix film for that matter ― will be exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Banned from competing and facing a chilly reception, Netflix may not make the trek to the French Riviera, according to […]
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 […]
Orson Welles and his unrealized ‘King Lear’
A film adaptation of King Lear, Shakespeare’s tale of old age and mortality, was one of the last projects conceived by Orson Welles.