Joseph McBride’s third book on Orson Welles, entitled “What Ever Happen To Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career” won’t be in bookstores until this October, but in a highly questionable move, it was reviewed today — nearly two months early — in tandem with Simon Callow’s “Hello Americans” in the Los Angeles Times. […]
Simon Callow’s second volume on Orson Welles life and career has just come out in it’s�U.S. edition.� Details on the book from Viking Press are below, followed by a review from Entertainment Weekly. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ORSON WELLES Vol. Two HELLO AMERICANS By Simon Callow Hardcover | 5.98 x 9.01in | 656 pages | ISBN 9780670872565 | […]
Here are some excerpts from an interview with the master animator Ray Harryhausen, where he talks about trying to interest Orson Welles in making War of the Worlds, and how he came close to working with Welles in Spain. LAWRENCE FRENCH: After years of keeping your effects secrets under wraps, what led you to be so forthcoming […]
Shout! Factory will release a 4-DVD set on September 12th of the Dick Cavett TV show focusing on 15 Legendary Hollywood actors and directors. This 4-DVD set will contain 12 episodes featuring: Directors: Orson Welles, John Huston, Frank Capra, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, Mel Brooks and Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Robert Mitchum, […]
http://www.upress.umn.edu/ Not sure why Hank’s on the cover…however, this book contains a chapter by Catherine Benamou called �Realism as Artifice and the Lure of the Real in Orson Welles�s F for Fake (1973).� It looks pretty interesting… Tony The first sustained critique of the mockumentary. Fake documentaries mimic documentary genre expectations, unraveling the documentary’s authority […]
áIn 2002, Catherine Benamou wrote the following for the Brazilian documentary film festival called “It’s All True”: á”Besides some excerpts, which can be cherished in a copy that this Festival will screen, there is a larger text and story to be rescued from the cans stacked up in the UCLA collection and yet labeled “It’s […]
Robert Gitt is the senior film preservation officer at the UCLA film archive, who over the years has been responsible for many important film restoration projects, including the 1980 restoration of Orson Welles original 108-minute version of Macbeth. I talked with Mr. Gitt last year about both his original restoration of Macbeth, and thanks to […]
The UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION at The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA campus. Info: (310) 296-FILM �The UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION Presents on August 10th at 7:30 PM Orson Welles’ MACBETH (Sans�SHAKESPEARE) and � ORSON WELLES AND THE HOLLYWOOD SYSTEM W/� guest speakers Joesph McBride and Catherine Benamou +++++++++++++++++++ � By Kenneth Turan, LA […]
According to Jonathan Rosenbaum,�a book�collecting his articles and pieces on Welles should be out next summer.� Additionally, he notes that a very important French book on Welles published by Cahiers du Cinema�should be out�this November entitled “Orson Welles au Travail” (Orson Welles at Work), with an English edition�possibly forthcoming next year; the authors are Francois […]
I might have mentioned this previously, but it’s worth making sure: the Bernard Herrmann site is up and running again, after being in hibernation for a few years. If you’re a Herrmann fan, this is the place to go: http://www.bernardherrmann.org/news/ Tony
I’m happy to report that Chris Welles Feder, Orson Welles eldest daughter, has agreed to offer readers of Wellesnet a limited number of signed copies of her beautifully written book of poems about her father, ”The Movie Director.” The book was privately published in a limited edition in 2002, which is probably why most Welles fans may […]
Of course the producers hated me most, because if I could do all those things, than what is the need for a producer? � �Orson Welles��������� Without final cut an artist cannot function. � �Henry Jaglom��� ������������������� ��*��������������*�������������*� It�s insane that filmmakers have to play that game, and that�s why movies suck! � �Ed Burns� […]