A Linguagem de Orson Welles - Rogério Sganzerla

[Alan Brody]

The picture quality is not great, but Youtube has this highly regarded short documentary about Orson Welles' South American venture in two parts. It's pretty cryptic but fascinating:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... rch=Search

Watch it while you can!

[Glenn Anders]

Rough as the two parts are, and confusing as bits of them might be to someone who knows little about Welles, these films in their total concision are little masterpieces.

Thank you, Alan.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

Rough, no question, but I wonder if some Hollywood resources couldn't tidy it up a bit. It would make a great DVD extra.

In it's playful use of audio snippets and "found footage", Linguagem de Orson Welles reminds me quite a bit of F For Fake. I especially like the part where footage of Rockefeller and Disney arriving in Rio is shown while, on the soundtrack, Welles as the Shadow is heard saying, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?". I also find myself curious as to why the film ends with a shot of New York's Chrysler Building.

[Tony]

Thanks for posting this Alan; I have the "It's All Brazil" film on dvd; I showed it to two Brazilian friends of mine; they're both educated and love films; they couldn't make head nor tail of it- said it was the strangest thing that'd ever seen!

[Alan Brody]

Shit, just as I was afraid of: it's been taken off already.