Beatrice Welles’ long-promised collection of her father’s artwork is heading to bookstores in the new year. Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches and Drawings from the Welles Estate will be published by Titan Books on February 19. The 192-page tome, available in the U.S. and U.K., will be 12-by-9 inches in size. It includes amusing self-portraits and sketches […]
Upon its completion, Orson Welles’ legendary The Other Side of the Wind has been lauded by critics worldwide with the movie appearing on more than three dozen Best Films of 2018 lists. The movie, produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza and edited by Bob Murawski, debuted at the Venice Film Festival on August 31. […]
The National Film Registry, a list of films chosen for preservation because of their “cultural, historic and aesthetic” significance to the nation’s film heritage, has added Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai to its roster. The Librarian of Congress today announced 25 additions to the 30-year-old registry. Chosen with input from the National Film Preservation Board […]
By RAY KELLY The Other Side of the Wind won its first major awards on Sunday as the film’s completion received a special citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Bob Murawski and the late Orson Welles were honored for best editing by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Murawski was warmly congratulated on […]
Maverick, a new play set during filmmaker Orson Welles’ final months, will run February 6 through March 2 at the Connelly Theater in New York’s East Village. The play is based on the real-life happenings of Frank Beacham, a young video maker, who was given the creative opportunity to work with Welles in the months […]
Composer Michel Legrand performed a selection from his recent score for the Orson Welles film The Other Side of the Wind on Saturday night at the Philharmonie de Paris. The two-hour program was unusual as it was dedicated solely to Legrand’s film scores, a first for a performance by him in Paris. As Legrand and […]
By RAY KELLY For much of Wellesnet’s history, two topics have dominated conversation here: The completion of The Other Side of the Wind and the desire to see a superb DVD (later Blu-ray) release of The Magnificent Ambersons. This month, Welles fans finally got both. The Criterion Collection today released its long-awaited domestic Blu-ray and […]
By RAY KELLY The Deep, a commercial thriller filmed, but never completed, by the late Orson Welles is the subject of Orson Welles in Hvar, a wonderful limited edition book out of Croatia. Assembled by photographer-writer Dusko Kovacic and film historian and documentarian Daniel Rafaelic (The Other Side of Welles), the text is presented in Croatian […]
New York’s The Quad will showcase Orson Welles work as an actor with a dozen movies he appeared in, but did not direct. Actor for Hire: The Other Side of Orson Welles runs between December 7 and 13. The retrospective samples four decades of Welles’ film appearances for other directors, from rewarding star-turns to scene-stealing […]
Update: The watermarked screenplay has been removed from the Netflix site. However, copies were apparently downloaded and are popping up on file sharing sites, such as DocDroid, though the copy we saw was later deleted. _______ Orson Welles’ screenplay for The Other Side of the Wind is available as a free download as Netflix makes […]
By RAY KELLY Forty eight years after Bob Random was cast by Orson Welles as John Dale, the Canadian born actor has finally seen his starring turn in the recently completed The Other Side of the Wind. Random had already appeared in such films as Village of the Giants, …tick… tick… tick… and This Property Is Condemned when he was tapped by […]
Producers Frank Marshall (The Other Side of the Wind, A Final Cut For Orson) and wife Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, were honored on November 18 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with its prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. The Thalberg award is presented to creative producers “whose body of work reflects […]