Welles series coming to New York

[Glenn Anders]

Well, Blunted, none of the movies you single out from the NYC program are very good, but THE PRINCE OF FOXES, at least, has style and some interesting scenes. And IN A SAFE PLACE is important for showing Welles still helping talent, in this case in the first film by Henry Jaglom, who has made an interesting career turning out profitable small films with an admirable Wellsian independence.

Your unwillingness to sit still, Blunted, reminds me of the famous reason given for Herman J. Mankiewicz's losing his job at Columbia before Welles' rescued him by letting him do radio plays for the Mercury Theater on the Air in New York. As you may know, it is said that Harry Cohn told some of his cronies at the Columbia Studios executive dining room that he had seen a movie the evening before which the Studio head quickly realized he could not sit through.

It therefore must be a dog.

Herman could not resist from piping up: "Harry, I had never realized, the whole world is wired to your ass!"

Pink slip for Herman.

These pot boilers will be of interest to people who are fascinated with the phenomenon of Orson Welles. Many will be exploring his life and work for the first time, new generations even younger than ourselves, perhaps!

Amazing, but true!

Let them make their own judgments, even should they be the same as yours.

Viva the Welles' NYC Program!

Glenn

[Sir Bygber Brown]

I second Glenn's position. These films may not be as good as a Welles directed project, and perhaps terribly boring to sit through a second viewing, but for people who have never seen them before, this is probably the only opportunity they'll get to do so, aside from emptying their pockets on ebay.

[blunted by community]

i wasn't trying to sway any one's judgement. i was posting my opinion. isn't that what we do here? or am i in the wrong place?

prince of foxes does have one or two good scenes in it, but for me that hardly merits sitting through 2-hrs of bad scenes.

and i have more to say about the other films. can you direct me to where i can go to post my opinion.

i am not fascinated by welles on film. i am addicted to, and fascinated by welles' work as a director. no one can direct welles like welles can.

those people that have heard about this brilliant force, welles, and they want to know more, so they go to see TOMORROW IS FOREVER, or A SAFE PLACE, or any of the other dogs i listed above. What do you think their opinion will be after the viewings?

hey glenn, have you seen jaglom's CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? and did you like it?