Paramount scanning remaining ‘It’s All True’ footage
The UCLA Film & Television Archive houses 75,145 feet of “My Friend Bonito,” 32,200 feet of “Carnaval,” and 28,000 feet of “Four Men on a Raft.”
‘Too Much Johnson’ podcast examines found film
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the world premiere of the “Too Much Johnson” silent film footage, which was shot by Orson Welles in 1938 for inclusion in a failed Mercury Theatre stage production and presumed lost.
2022: Wellesian year in review
It has been 37 years since Orson Welles took his final bow, but there was no shortage of appreciations and projects for Wellesians to enjoy in 2022.
Boat used in Orson Welles’ ‘The Deep’ up for sale
The 55-year-old yacht, christened The Saracen, is presently moored in YC Labud Split, Croatia. It carries an asking price of €49,000, or $51,600.
‘Crazy Weather,’ unproduced Orson Welles script, detailed by film scholar
Italian film scholar Massimiliano Studer has explored the archives at the National Cinema Museum of Turin and found an unfinished early 1970s script by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar.
‘Don Quixote’: Orson Welles’ vision remains out of reach
Fifty years after Orson Welles finished shooting “Don Quixote” and 30 years since the release of the Jesus Franco cut, Welles’ vision of Cervantes’ knight errant remains out of reach.
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 […]