Wellesnet was recently afforded the opportunity to view Brian Rose’s ambitious work-in-progress – a 131-minute reconstruction of “The Magnificent Ambersons” and offer an exclusive sample of his efforts.
If a copy of the 131-minute cut of Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons” somehow still exists after 80 years, the film print would likely be in Brazil.
In this fascinating, undated, 10-page typed document, director Orson Welles explains the storyline and principal theme of his intended Hollywood comeback film.
The noted author recently appeared in the Danny Wu documentary “American: An Odyssey to 1947” and was working on a third book about Orson Welles.
“Orson Welles & The Golden Age of Hollywood” guest speakers include Ray Kelly of Wellesnet, Chicago Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips, and Bob Mondello of NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
The documentary “American: An Odyssey to 1947” looks at Orson Welles’ progressive views and the changing U.S. political landscape of the 1930s and ’40s.
Danny Wu’s documentary is an important work that both deserves distribution and future screenings in any respectable film class devoted to Orson Welles.
Orson Welles’ story of “Lucky” Luciano and a proposed film bio was not a tall tale told by the filmmaker as the two men found themselves outcasts in Italy in the late 1940s.
Available briefly in France in 1952, filmmaker Gianfranco Giagni has brought Orson Welles’ satirical “The Unthinking Lobster” to readers in Italy as “Miracolo a Hollywood.”
Matthew Asprey Gear’s 12-week online course begins on July 19. Each class includes a 50-minute lecture by Gear and a group discussion.
Brian Rose was kind enough to not only share some of his work on “The Magnificent Ambersons” with Wellesnet, but to field a few questions about his reconstruction.
Nicholas Ray and Orson Welles had their American careers ended prematurely by an industry that could not be moved to re-employ them.