‘Orson Welles: Banda de um Homem Só,’ to be launched at Brazil festival
Chapters on It’s All True and Don Quixote are the result of what Müller describes as intensive research in archives.
Interview with ‘Don Quixote’ editor Mauro Bonanni
The fate of “Don Quixote” remains uncertain.
Orson Welles’ Don Quixote – The Enigma
The Don Quixote workprint will be screened in Paris later this month.
Beatrice Welles online chat transcript
Welles’ youngest daughter fielded online questions.
Review: ‘Don Quixote’ workprint screened at Cinémathèque Française
It was screened at the Cinémathèque Française on June 29, 2015.
Director Jess Franco, worked on ‘Chimes at Midnight’ and ‘Don Quixote,’ dead at 82
Cult filmmaker Jess Franco, director of more than 180 films, died today in Málaga,Spain, at the age of 82. Franco made his feature directing debut with “We Are 18 Years Old” in 1959. His final film, “Al Pereira Vs The Alligator Women,” opened last month in Spain. His other films include “Necronomicon,” (1967), “Count Dracula” […]
Additions to Orson Welles collection at University of Michigan open to scholars
By RAY KELLY Welles scholars now have access to the exciting additions to the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan. The first collection, “The Orson Welles – Chris Welles Feder Collection,” is a gift from Welles’ eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. It includes photographs of the family and letters from Welles to his […]
ROSABELLA: ORSON WELLES YEARS IN ITALY now out on DVD
Ciro Giorgini has written to let us know that his fine documentary Rosabella is now available on DVD, with new interviews with Elsa Martinelli and Suzanne Cloutier as extras. It can be ordered from Minimum Fax in Italy For 19. Euros, and comes with the book Orson Welles: Interviews on the art of the Cinema […]
San Sebastian Film Festival to present Elisabet Cabeza & Esteve Riambau’s film “Màscares,” about Richard France’s Play, OBEDIENTLY YOURS, ORSON WELLES
Màscares (Masks) Masks directed by Elisabet Cabeza and Welles’s scholar Esteve Riambau, will screen at at the San Sebastian Film festival in the “New Directors” section on September 22, 23 and 24. Anyone in Spain who sees it is encouraged to send us a report. You can see the trailer, in Spanish HERE. The program […]
Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’s “WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH DON QUIXOTE?”
Here lies the noble fearless knight, Whose valor rose to such a height; When Death at last did strike him down, His was the victory and renown. He reck’d the world of little prize, And was a bugbear in men’s eyes; But had the fortune in his age To live a fool and die a […]
ORSON WELLES’ memo to GARY GRAVER: On Filming Holy Week Procession in Seville
To celebrate Gary Graver’s wonderful new memoir, Making Movies with ORSON WELLES, I thought I’d offer a sample of the delights it has to offer. To start, here is the text for an incredibly detailed memo Welles wrote to Gary Graver which appears to have been written around 1972, when Welles was in the midst […]
Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’s DON QUIXOTE
Juan Cobos recently sent me his revised article about Orson Welles and the making of Don Quixote, exclusively for the readers of Wellesnet, and Lucy has begun translating it into English on the messageboard. In the meantime, for all of our Spanish language readers in Spain, Mexico and all of the Americas, I thought I […]