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[Skylark]

Apparently, it's being released this February - - I reactivated a previous thread discussing it. Apparently the Welles interview lasts about 15 minutes. They have the trailer on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmL3wmEpYkM

[Glenn Anders]

Thank you, skylark.

I see that LUCIFER ET MOI was shot in Greece, appears to be a fey comedy, and as you say, may be released in February.

Perhaps, LUCIFER ET MOI will become a push-pull double feature with ME AND ORSON!

Glenn

[Skylark]

Sinatra roast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyIYmbDQgzg

The real Xanadu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5PMrzGUhJw

Sydney Pollack on TOE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTz-rhwjps

Return to Glennascaul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6CXJuZk ... re=related

[Skylark]

Welles in 13 Chairs
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Om55JXafg7Q

Welles obit on ET
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqLDRQh3BA

[Skylark]

Dinah Shore show
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=V421bF698sA

Portrait of Gina is back
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C7R5CBG5rJM

[Skylark]

Vienna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kz39VdxoQc

[Skylark]

There's some sort of monument in Morocco, I guess because of Othello.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGTKCczH5c

Great romances doc - Welles - Hayworth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toeqbKk3_YY

Welles dishes on modern art - (the whole thing is available on another post)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta116wEF5BI

Fitzgerald's 'Pat Hobby and Orson Welles'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWBtmbJrQU

Orson Welles has a crater on Mars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqer-ZM6f7c

Welles as Falstaff on Dean Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEdoGsxE4lw

Welles Radio skit on Dean Martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZK3UY_j10

Doc from French Macbeth DVD - with a familiar speaker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWEJcySlyo8

Spanish doc with fancy computer effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDaI0SXwmKg

[Alan Brody]

Good to see that Falstaff on Dean Martin thing back on Youtube. That would make a great extra on a Chimes DVD.

[Glenn Anders]

Yes, Skylark, Essaouira was formerly known as Mogador, the site where much of Orson Welles' OTHELLO was filmed. From the release of the 1992 restoration onward (if not before), plazas have been dedicated and monuments erected. The local Sultan, according to some reports, is a fan of Welles. You can even stay at the Hotel Orson Welles or the Palazzo Desdemona for about ninety bucks a night.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

From the release of the 1992 restoration onward (if not before), plazas have been dedicated and monuments erected. The local Sultan, according to some reports, is a fan of Welles. You can even stay at the Hotel Orson Welles or the Palazzo Desdemona for about ninety bucks a night.

He should be a Welles fan. I would think that would be a nice angle for the tourist trade. I wonder if Welles would have approved, though. I get the impression had a rather low opinion of tourism in general.

[Glenn Anders]

I don't know, Alan.

No matter what Orson Welles might have said on the subject, you might want to consider that in the years just after World War II, tourism was not the pre-packaged experience it has become now. After all, in the early 1930's, did not Welles travel in Ireland, Spain, and Morocco itself, where he claimed to have stayed in the Sultan's castle? That nobleman or perhaps his son was such a great fan of Welles that he began to name squares and monuments after him. Then, too, a few years later, what were Welles' TV ventures in Spain, in Italy, in Austria, among London's Chelsea Pensioners, but early examples of the kind of travel program which now takes up a good amount of space on American Public Television?

Orson Welles may have looked down on "tourism," but he appears to have been "the eternal tourist" much of his life -- and many of his works show that.

Glenn

[Glenn Anders]

I seem to be repeating myself again. As usual.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

My thinking is that Welles considered himself to be a traveller rather then a tourist.

"He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks of months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home."

"[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking."

— Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)

[Glenn Anders]

Hey, Alan! The Sheltering Sky and THE SHELTERING SKY. What a terribly apt title!

Yes, perfect. I have always remembered Bowles' novel and Bertolucci's movie. In fact, I have a back order on a recent Warner Brothers' sale where the DVD turned up.

The picture may have problems -- I have to see it again -- but the opening of the film is unforgettable for me. It points up the irony: Are Port and Kit Moresby travelers, as they believe themselves to be, or are they tourists? Is Kit really the traveler? and Port but the doomed tourist? I think that was a great problem in Welles' life. Remember that strange little story, "Passage to Bali" that he kept coming back to in his radio productions? The story is a bit like Conrad's The Secret Sharer, a novella by one of Welles' favorite authors.

Anyway, I consider your reply magnificent.

Glenn

[Alan Brody]

Ah, the wonders of cut and paste. I've never read Sheltering Sky or Conrad's Secret Sharer, but they're on my overly long reading list. I saw Bertolucci's film though, mainly because it was mentioned in the opening shot of Altman's The Player as having tracking shots to rival the opening shot of Touch of Evil. I didn't think so, but then I only saw it on video. Ironically the Player's opening shot does rival TOE. BTW, The Sheltering Sky was filmed in Morocco, just like Othello and it's story takes place there. Sounds like Bowles had as much of an affinity for the country as Welles did.