Film historian Joseph McBride, who penned “Rough Sledding with Pauline Kael” in 1971, graciously offered to revisit the authorship of Citizen Kane for Wellesnet after screening David Fincher’s new Netflix movie Mank — the latest in a string of unflattering film portrayals of Orson Welles.
Documentarian Mark Cousins looked into The Eyes of Orson Welles, now psychoanalyst/psychotherapist Jack Schwartz has published a paper on what could be called “the mind of Orson Welles.”
Part of the Dupont Company films and commercials collection, A Gift of Harvest was filmed throughout 1978-79 and released in 1981.
Matthew Asprey Gear, author of “At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City,” will offer a 12-week online course for serious fans of the late filmmaker.
Network, which released the DVD “Orson Welles Great Mysteries Volume 1” in the United Kingdom last year, will release the second and final volume on October 26. Produced by Anglia Television, the 25-minute long episodes were originally broadcast by Britain’s ITV between September 1973 and February 1974. Thirteen episodes were featured on the first volume and the remaining 13 shows are contained on Volume 2.
When rapper Logic decided to sample an Orson Welles radio show for Intro on his album No Pressure, he did not plan on using the late filmmaker’s voice again to close the collection. Logic sampled Welles’ introductory remarks from a 1942 broadcast of The Hitch-Hiker to playfully kick-off his hit album. “On one of the very […]
Orson Welles, with the support of singer Eartha Kitt and Gate Theatre founders Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards, staged An Evening with Orson Welles at three stops in West Germany in August 1950. Performances began at the Frankfurt Zoo theater before moving on to Hamburg and Munich. An Evening with Orson Welles, under the direction […]
La Cinematheque francaise has made an extraordinary interview with Orson Welles available online. The 90-minute interview is part of the Henri platform put in place by Cinémathèque francaise, which has been closed since March 13. Film lessons and conferences, sites and articles devoted to its exhibitions and retrospectives, not to mention treasures from its collections, […]
By RAY KELLY Imagine eavesdropping on a suppertime conversation between a maverick filmmaker who was frequently at odds with the major studios and a young director at the forefront of the New Hollywood movement. Cineastes will rejoice in learning that extensive footage of the November 1970 meeting of Citizen Kane creator Orson Welles and Easy Rider director […]
If you spend enough time on social media, you will find a number of young people either do not know who Orson Welles was — or know him only from YouTube outtakes of Paul Masson or Findus frozen peas commercials. But the release today of Logic’s album, No Pressure, has sent some fans of the […]
Classic Orson Welles radio broadcasts are sampled on a forthcoming album by Grammy nominated rapper Logic. Welles can he heard prominently on two tracks on Logic’s album, No Pressure, which is set to arrive on Friday, July 24, via Def Jam Recordings/Visionary Music Group. (Some of the album tracks have already leaked online.) The […]
In the works is an Argentinian-led remake of The Immortal Story – the Karen Blixen short story previously filmed by Orson Welles for French television in 1968. Argentina’s Daniel Rosenfeld and director Luca Puenzo will write the screenplay for the big screen effort. Argentine-French actor Nahuel Parez Biscayart (BPM) and Leonardo Sbaraglia (Pain and Glory, Wild Tales) […]