Update: The Other Side of the Wind will be shown April 19 and 23. ____ Jonathan Rosenbaum, noted film critic and consultant on the restored Touch of Evil and completed The Other Side of the Wind, will host a 14-week lecture series on the work of Orson Welles at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago. Orson […]
By JOSEPH McBRIDE And now comes the authorship question about The Other Side of the Wind. Orson Welles shares screenwriting credit with his longtime personal and creative partner, Oja Kodar, who also plays the Actress in the film-within-the-film directed by Jake Hannaford (John Huston). Welles receives sole directing credit. But recently critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, who […]
By RAY KELLY Heritage Auctions has several unique Orson Welles items on the block between now and November 3, including three unpublished scripts and a short story. Other items up for bid include more than two dozen books, several signed, from the late filmmaker’s private collection. Also on the block is a revealing 1942 letter […]
(Editor’s note: Alberto Anile, author of Orson Welles in Italy, shared his views of The Other Side of the Wind after attending a preview screening at the 75th annual Venice Film Festival.) By ALBERTO ANILE The very first public screening of The Other Side of the Wind, reserved for critics and journalists, took place at […]
Italian public television’s RAI 3 will pay tribute to Orson Welles in the days leading up to the 75th annual Venice Film Festival and world premiere of his recently completed movie The Other Side of the Wind. The broadcast programming, except a showing of The Magnificent Ambersons, focuses chiefly on Welles’ connection to Italy and his many […]
The professional and personal papers of the late filmmaker Jonathan Demme have been donated to the University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor. The materials will become part of the “Screen Arts Mavericks and Makers” collection, which also includes the works of Orson Welles, Robert Altman, John Sayles, Nancy Savoca, Ira Deutchman and others. Philip Hallman, […]
(Editor’s note:Museo Nazionale del Cinema’s once overlooked archive of Orson Welles scripts and personal correspondence in Turin has received a great deal of attention in recent months thanks to Massimiliano Studer, co-founder of Forma Cinema, and Alessandro Aniballi, co-founder of Quinlan.it. The Italian film scholars first publicized the contents of the collection earlier this year. Matthew Asprey Gear, […]
By RAY KELLY A previously unknown English-language novel credited to Orson Welles has been discovered in the archives of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. The bound hardcover typescript of V.I.P. ― mistakenly cataloged at one point by the museum as a treatment for the movie The V.I.P.’s or V.I.P ― is an English version of Welles’ […]
The upcoming The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles and co-starring Peter Bogdanovich, is not first project pairing of the two filmmakers. Their relationship dates back to 1961 when Bogdanovich organized a Welles film retrospective, the first in the United States, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Welles, […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles famously wrote, “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” He would have certainly been impressed then by Mark Cousins’ penetrating and engaging new documentary, The Eyes of Orson Welles, which had its world premiere today at the Cannes Film […]
By RAY KELLY Compared to other Orson Welles projects, relatively little has been written about Too Much Johnson, the Mercury Theatre’s ill-fated 1938 stage comedy, which would have included his first use of film in a commercial project. A two-week tryout of Too Much Johnson commenced at the Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut in […]
Michael Anderegg, professor emeritus of English at the University of North Dakota and author of “Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture” provides fine insight.