Fortaleza museum to include ‘It’s All True’ photographs
The collection includes 22 photos taken by Chico Albuquerque.
Beatrice Welles interview – Part 1: Treasures to be auctioned, life with Orson Welles and public misconceptions
By RAY KELLY On April 26, Heritage Auctions will sell more than 70 items once owned by the late Orson Welles. The items include film memorabilia, clothing and personal accoutrements, including script pages and black and white film stills from Citizen Kane, scripts and still photos from The Magnificent Ambersons, a pair of personal scrapbooks […]
Video: Siskel & Ebert review ‘It’s All True’
By MIKE TEAL Over the course of their 24 years together on television, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became the best-known movie critics in the nation, if not the world. They began as fierce rivals for competing newspapers in Chicago, but rose to fame together, reviewing the latest theatrical films on public television starting in […]
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 […]
A soundtrack for “The Story of Samba” from the Carnival episode of Orson Welles’s IT’S ALL TRUE
IT’S ALL TRUE You can now Download 12 selections from the many songs Orson Welles was considering using for the original soundtrack to The Story of Samba episode of It’s All True. Thanks to João Perdigão / Canhotagem for providing this valuable link and compiling these vintage songs from the Brazilian artists Orson Welles was […]
University of Michigan Special Collections Library annouces the Richard Wilson–Orson Welles papers are now open for viewing
Catherine L. Benamou, the curator of the Univ. of Michigan Welles collection recently wrote to tell Wellesnet that the Richard Wilson–Orson Welles papers are now open for viewing and research by Welles scholars and all other interested parties. You can access the online site to see an overview of the 62 boxes of material on […]
Jonathan Rosenbaum interviewed on Orson Welles
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 […]
Orson Welles’ “It’s All True’ – memos and notes from July 1941 to March 1942
By LAWRENCE FRENCH In conjunction with the arrival of Catherine Benamou’s long awaited and fascinating new book on Orson Welles’ It’s All True, I thought I’d post a series of memos and press articles I’ve been compiling related to the making of Welles unfinished masterpiece. While I was reviewing Ms. Benamou’s book and re-reading these […]
IT’S ALL TRUE: Orson Welles Pan-American Odyssey By Catherine Benamou
By LAWRENCE FRENCH I’ve just received a copy of Catherine Benamou’s labor of love book about the making of Orson Welles’ own unfinished labor of love, It’s All True. Although I’ve only had a chance to scan through it briefly, I can safely attest it’s a must have volume for any serious Welles aficionado. Firstly, […]
Peter Bogdanovich replies to Charles Higham – ‘It’s All True’
Here is Peter Bogdanovich’s reply to the interview with Charles Higham, below, that appeared in The New York Times on September 17, 1970. Mr. Higham’s interview, it should be noted, was conducted with himself. In other words, he wrote both the questions and the answers, which is of course, why it is now so apparent […]
The definitive book on Orson Welles IT’S ALL TRUE due in March, 2007
What promises to be the definitive book on Orson Welles IT’S ALL TRUE will be arriving in March, 2007 from the UC California Press. Here are some advance details: ++++++++++ It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey � By Catherine L. Benamou � U.C. Berkeley Press – 416 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 39 b/w […]
Joseph McBride’s new book explodes a myth: IT’S ALL TRUE was under budget
Joseph McBride’s new book on Orson Welles features two chapters on the saga of the making, and unmaking of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND. It’s the most comprehensive coverage of this unfinished Welles masterpiece that has yet been seen. In the book Mr. McBride also goes into some detail about the early problems Welles […]