By RAY KELLY Julien’s Auctions has a Wellesian treasure trove of materials related to Orson Welles’ unfinished thriller “The Deep” on the block on Nov. 9-10. The items are part of its “Icons & Idols” auction. According the Beverly Hills auction house, production notes, correspondence, film rolls, contracts, scripts, and other materials were left by […]
By RAY KELLY While the future of The Other Side of the Wind is always cloudy, one thing appears clear: A book chronicling the making of this unfinished Orson Welles film is in the works. Josh Karp, who teaches journalism at Northwestern, is writing about The Other Side of the Wind for St. Martin’s Press. […]
Rich Little recently sent Wellesnet a scan of a charcoal portrait he drew of Orson Welles that can be purchased at his website Here. Rich Little worked with Welles on the still unfinished The Other Side of the Wind, before he left the production and was replaced by Peter Bogdanovich. Here are some of Rich […]
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And […]
Southern Illinois University Press has released Orson Welles and The Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective by scholar Marguerite Rippy.
Jose Maria Castellvi was an important photographer in Spain, who worked for several magazines, including Playboy and Penthouse. He was also the personal photographer for Julio Iglesias for many years. While Orson Welles was living in Spain, he met Jose Maria and asked him to take some “artistic” pictures of Oja Kodar. Welles liked the […]
This article is based on a piece by Jean-Pierre Berthome that appeared in French in The Unknown Orson Welles, the wonderful book edited by Stefan Drossler of the Filmmuseum Munchen. Special thanks to Francois Thomas, who graciously translated key portions of the text for me. All the sections below in bold type are taken from […]
The Other Side of the Wind is Orson Welles only unrealized film project that could possibly be completed without the great man himself. There are many arguments to support this hope. But my goal would be to work with everybody who worked on the picture, Oja Kodar, and anybody who was around a lot. Frank […]
The recent showing of Stefan Drossler’s rare “Unknown Welles” material at The Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, brought out a large contingent of Bay area film scholars, including Joseph McBride, the author of many books on Welles, Tom Luddy, the former director of The San Francisco Film Festival, and current director of The Telluride Film […]
This weekend, the Pacific Film Archive will be hosting Stefan Drosseler of the Munich Film Museum, who will be presenting two shows of his rare UNKNOWN ORSON WELLES material. Needless to say, this will be a long overdue program to arrive in the Bay area, for which film fans and Welles scholars can give thanks […]
Ray Kelly, our Wellesnet man in Cambridge sends along this exclusive report on Stefan Drossler’s presentation of The Unknown Orson Welles on December 1, 2008 at the Harvard Film Archive
Here lies the noble fearless knight, Whose valor rose to such a height; When Death at last did strike him down, His was the victory and renown. He reck’d the world of little prize, And was a bugbear in men’s eyes; But had the fortune in his age To live a fool and die a […]
Here’s a very nice piece on OSOTW featuring comments from John Huston, Susan Strasberg and Gary Graver, written for the March, 1976 issue of AFTER DARK, a New York based magazine that billed itself as “The National Magazine of Entertainment.” *** ORSON WELLES AND FIVE YEARS OF “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND” By VIOLA […]
