Oja Kodar interview on Hungarian website

By RAY KELLY Interviews with Orson Welles’ longtime love and collaborator Oja Kodar are rare to come by, but the Hungarian website mozinet.hu recently spoke with the Croatian actress-writer. Sadly, none of the six questions asked of Kodar delved into the status of “The Other Side of the Wind” or any of Welles’ unfinished film […]

January 17, 2013

Orson Welles Family Album added to Wellesnet

We are proud to welcome a new addition to Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Family Album. This new web page is a generous sampling of photographs of Welles throughout the years with his three wives: Virginia Nicolson, Rita Hayworth and Paola Mori; his three daughters, Christopher, Rebecca and Beatrice; collaborator-companion Oja Kodar; and assorted friends, lovers […]

November 18, 2012

Is a Showtime deal near to complete Orson Welles’s THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND?

The Other Side of the Wind is Orson Welles only unrealized film project that could possibly be completed without the great man himself. There are many arguments to support this hope. But my goal would be to work with everybody who worked on the picture, Oja Kodar, and anybody who was around a lot. Frank […]

February 18, 2009

THE DREAMERS: Orson Welles poetic masterpiece

Here’s a rare�treat.� A long scene from Orson Welles script of… � ��� THE DREAMERS (1982)� Directed by Orson Welles. Screenplay by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar, based on The Dreamers and Echoes by Isak Dinesen.� Cinematography (in color) by Gary Graver.� Music by Erik Satie.� � Starring Orson Welles as Marcus Kleek� Oja Kodar […]

September 25, 2006

Oja Kodar on Orson Welles’ DON QUIXOTE

Since the first public glimpse of Orson Welles Don Quixote was presented thirty years ago this month at the Cannes film festival�less than a year after Welles had died�I thought it would be interesting to present some background material on that very first public showing. The Don Quixote footage shown at Cannes was apparently entrusted […]

June 1, 2006