September brings two major books from France dedicated to the career of filmmaker Orson Welles.
First up is Leur Orson Welles: Grands entretiens (Their Orson Welles: Major Interviews) from Jean-Pierre Berthomé and François Thomas. Released on September 2 by the independent French publishing house Les Impressions Nouvelles, Leur Orson Welles is comprised of interviews with Welles collaborators conducted by noted scholars Berthomé and Thomas over a more than 20-year period.
Recollections of producers Richard Wilson and Dominique Antoine, set designer Alexandre Trauner, cameramen Edmond Richard, Willy Kurant, and Serge Halsdorf, editors Marie-Sophie Dubus and Yves Deschamps, actors Paul Stewart, Jeanette Nolan, and Keith Baxter, and longtime companion and collaborator Oja Kodar are featured
The French language book is available in paperback or Kindle at amazon.co.uk/Leur-Orson-Welles-Grands-entretiens/dp/2390702414
Due on September 18 from Les Éditions de la Table Ronde is the catalogue for the upcoming Cinémathèque française event, My Name is Orson Welles.
The 464-page coffee table book will contain new papers related to the extensive film, television, and cultural retrospective of Welles’ work. The Paris event is scheduled to run from October 8, 2025, to January 1, 2026, and the catalogue is expected to be a comprehensive resource covering the event’s scope.
The catalogue is edited by Frédéric Bonnaud. Among the contributors is Matthew Asprey Gear, who penned the chapter Les Projets Abandonnés Des Années 1970-1980 (translated from English by Jean-François Cornu).
(Special thanks to Esteve Riambau for alerting us to the publication dates of these two significant French language books.)
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