Frank Beacham worked as a producer on a planned video program to be called Orson Welles Solo in 1985. But Welles’ death on October 10 of that year left that project unfinished. Beacham recalls his time spent with Welles in Maverick, a new stage play, which runs through March 2 at the Connelly Theater in New York’s East Village. […]
“Orson Welles Portfolio” offers a trove of many unseen paintings and drawings.
By RAY KELLY A series of Friday night dinners gave birth to a six-part documentary series, which will look at the private life of iconic director Orson Welles. Life with Orson Welles: The Man Behind the Legend comes from his youngest daughter, Beatrice Welles, and director Dax Phelan (Jasmine). The two were involved in the production of The […]
Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries Volume 1, released on DVD in Germany two years ago, will be issued in the United Kingdom next month by Network. While the German DVD set from Pidax Film Media featured 10 episodes of the British anthology television series, the forthcoming Network collection will offer 13 of the 26 episodes hosted […]
The Criterion Channel, the streaming successor to the now defunct FilmStruck, will begin service on April 8 with a newly released Criterion edition of Mikey and Nicky. Charter Subscribers who visit CriterionChannel.com and sign up before the date launch will enjoy an extended 30-day free trial beginning April 8, reduced pricing for the life of […]
Michel Legrand, a three-time Oscar winner and composer for the Orson Welles films F for Fake and The Other Side of the Wind, died Saturday, January 26, at his Paris home. He was 86. Legrand, who scored some 200 films and television programs, was known for such classic film songs as “The Windmills of […]
Maestro Bruno Fontaine and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra brought the music of the Orson Welles’ film Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report) to life at a recent performance in Paris. Fontaine, an arranger and composer in his own right, has a passion — and ear — for lost movie scores, often the result of the […]
Hot on the heels of The Criterion Collection’s 4K restoration of The Magnificent Ambersons, movie historian Joseph Egan has unveiled a website totally dedicated to Orson Welles’ sophomore Hollywood release. A four-month undertaking, The Complete Orson Welles The Magnificent Ambersons seeks to take full advantage of the website format, Egan said. “I wanted it to show that it […]
Library of America and Penguin Random House will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington with a new edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles adapted Tarkington’s acclaimed 1918 novel for his second film in 1942. Later, Welles said that his father, Richard, an inventor of bicycle lamps, had been friends […]
The National Society of Film Critics bestowed its Film Heritage Award today on the recently completed The Other Side of Wind. Founded in 1966, the National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics. Its Film Heritage Award was given to “the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians and […]
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 RAY KELLY The fact that the word Wellesian was added to the venerable Oxford English Dictionary in 2018 was hardly surprising. Orson Welles ― who has been dead for 33 years ― had one of the best years of his career in 2018. This could have been the year his fans simply reflected on […]