Orson Welles movies still unavailable on Blu-ray
As the home video market moves from Blu-ray to 4K UHD, it’s worth noting that for U.S. fans there are still several Welles-directed titles unavailable on Blu-ray.
‘Jangada de Welles’ set to play U.S. festivals
U.S. audiences will finally have their chance to see the Brazilian documentary A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft) at three festivals in the coming weeks. The film was selected for the official competitions of the 14th Brazilian Film Festival of New York and the 24th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, as well as the […]
CineOp to screen ‘A Jangada de Welles’ at September festival
A Jangada de Welles (Welles’ Raft) will be screened at the CineOP film festival next month. The CineOp festival is set for September 3-7 in Ouro Preto, Brazil. The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira during […]
Script about Orson Welles in Brazil makes contest quarter finals
A script about Orson Welles’ ill-fated trip to Brazil is a quarter-finalist in WriteMovies, a contest that has been revealing screenwriters since 1999. It’s All Lies was written by Zé Dassilva, a Brazilian Emmy International winning screenwriter for Imperio, created by Aguinaldo Silva and chosen the best telenovela worldwide in 2015. The title, It’s All Lies, […]
‘It’s All True’ documentary re-released on DVD
Out of print in recent years, the 1993 documentary Its All True: Based on an Unfinished Film By Orson Welles was re-released on DVD this week by Paramount Home Video. The documentary recalls Welles’ ill-fated wartime project with filmmakers Myron Meisel, Bill Krohn and the late Richard Wilson reconstructing one his three planned segments, Four […]
‘Jangada de Welles’ documentary to make European debut
The Brazilian documentary A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft) will have its European premiere later this month at the Toulouse Latin America Film Festival in France. The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, Brazil; the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira during […]
‘Jangada de Welles’ documentary to be shown in U.S.
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles’ doomed movie on the plight of impoverished Brazilian fishermen is the subject of a new documentary, A Jangada de Welles (The Welles Raft). The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira […]
Restored ‘It’s All True’ documentary to screen at MoMA
The restored DCP is being screened courtesy of Paramount Pictures.
Documentary on ‘It’s All True’ actor Grande Otelo in the works
He was chosen by Orson Welles to co-star in the ill-fated 1943 film “It’s All True.”
‘It’s All True’ – 75 years after Orson Welles’ ill-fated shoot
Several factors contributed to the demise of It’s All True.
Miguel Ferrer, narrated ‘It’s All True’ documentary, dead at 61
He was the oldest of five children by José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney.
Video: Jonathan Rosenbaum lecture at Brazil film festival
The festival ran for 10 days in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.