Producer Greg Boozell has sent along this link for Wellesnet viewers to preview a very informative interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum condcted by Mara Tapp, which concentrates on four of Orson Welles lesser viewed films: MR. ARKADIN, DON QUIXOTE, FALSTAFF and F FOR FAKE.   It also goes into some detail about Welles pioneering work with Afro-Americans and Afro-Brazilians, which really seems to be the smoking […]
(Wellesnet correspondent Leslie Weisman attended the screening of Chimes at Midnight at the AFI Wednesday night, which featured star Keith Baxter in attendance. Baxter spoke at length after the film about his experiences with Welles and on the film. Despite the occasional factual error on Mr Baxter’s part, this is a warmly remembered series of […]
Here is a letter Darryl Zanuck, the President of 20th Century Fox and a great friend of Welles wrote to him after first seeing ”Chimes At Midnight”. For whatever reasons, Zanuck and Fox were not able to secure the rights to “Chimes” which was rather unfortunate, since had Fox acquired the film it might have done far better in the […]
I’ve just returned from a fabulous�two week vacation in Spain, which�by sheer accident has turned out to be a�wonderful�source of Welles information – �inparticular on Chimes At Midnight, which was�Welles own favorite movie, as well as mine. Chimes�of course, was shot in Spain, which was�Welles� favorite country in Europe, as can be seen in this […]