George Hickenlooper adapted five pages of the Orson Welles-Oja Kodar screenplay in 1997 to attract backing for a feature film. The resulting short starred Malcolm McDowell and Ivana Milicevic in roles once intended for Welles and Kodar.
Tucked away on the fifth floor of Boston University’s Mugar Memorial Library are two manuscript boxes containing some of Orson Welles final unrealized projects.
Cinematheque Francaise has uploaded 30 minutes of rushes of Orson Welles performing Shylock’s “Hath not a Jew eyes” monologue from “The Merchant of Venice.”
The working title of the “It’s All True”-related documentary from Laura Godoy is “Welles in the Land of Silence” with a release date scheduled for 2026.
With Passover and Holy Week upon us, it seems an appropriate time to survey the religious, or faith-based, motion pictures associated with Orson Welles as an actor, writer or director.
Culled from six hours of footage shot in Sedona, Arizona, in June 1978, the 62-minute documentary was first screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 2005.
Nearly 70 years after Orson Welles began shooting “Don Quixote,” elements from the legendary film are being eyed for a proper assembly and release.
Beatrice Welles, the youngest daughter of filmmaker Orson Welles, has shared a clip with Wellesnet from “Two Wise Old Men: Socrates and Noah,” which was produced for the home video market more than 50 years ago.
Submissions for the Legacy Theatre Independent Film Festival will be accepted through July 8, and those selected for the fest will be notified by August 30.
“Masquerade” remains above all the (unrealized) film in which Orson Welles lays himself most bare, in his anguished family traumas and in relation to his religious beliefs, two topics about which he chose to reveal as little as possible during his lifetime.
Emiliano Campagnola was just shy of 30 and barely scraping a life together in Italy as a professional actor in theater, TV, and cinema when he found the script.
Footage from the Ouro Preto Easter festivities were scanned, portions of which will be used in “Orson Welles in the Land of Silence.”