In The Orson Welles File – Part 1, Bogdanovich writes, “This file covers the Welles movies I saw 1952-1970, in the order they were seen, with ratings and comments from the movie card-file I kept during those nineteen years. My first professional association with Orson was through curating the first U.S. retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1961, and writing the accompanying monograph. I didn’t actually meet the great man until 1968, after I had published several other books and directed my first feature. He asked me to do an interview book with him at our initial meeting, and that took about five years but wasn’t published until seven years after his death in 1985 at age 70.”
“To put it mildly, Orson was a complicated cat. The book we did together in the ’70s is still in print by Da Capo Press, titled This is Orson Welles, and intended by Welles “to set the record straight.” Because his life and career had numerous notorious aspects and controversies, far too numerous to deal with right now.
In Part 1, Bogdanovich looks at Trent’s Last Case, Duel in the Sun, Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Jane Eyre and more.
Read Bogdanovich’s take on Welles’ film work at Blogdanovich.
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