By MIKE TEAL Composer Daron Hagen will direct the world-premiere of his new work, “Orson Rehearsed,” at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago on Saturday, September 15, and Sunday, September, 16. Mr. Hagen describes his work as “a 70-minute, multi-media, Joycean stream-of-consciousness dreamscape, comprised of the Zuzu’s petals-like memory shards of life, streaming through the mind […]
(Editor’s note:Museo Nazionale del Cinema’s once overlooked archive of Orson Welles scripts and personal correspondence in Turin has received a great deal of attention in recent months thanks to Massimiliano Studer, co-founder of Forma Cinema, and Alessandro Aniballi, co-founder of Quinlan.it. The Italian film scholars first publicized the contents of the collection earlier this year. Matthew Asprey Gear, […]
By RAY KELLY A previously unknown English-language novel credited to Orson Welles has been discovered in the archives of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. The bound hardcover typescript of V.I.P. ― mistakenly cataloged at one point by the museum as a treatment for the movie The V.I.P.’s or V.I.P ― is an English version of Welles’ […]
“The Eyes of Orson Welles” will have its North American premiere at the Traverse City Film Festival on August 3.
By RAY KELLY Edinburgh’s independent arts venue Summerhall is working with filmmaker Mark Cousins (The Eyes of Orson Welles) and Orson Welles’ youngest daughter, Beatrice, on the first-ever major exhibition of late director’s artwork. The Drawings and Paintings of Orson Welles will be exhibited from August 2 through September 23 at Summerhall. The Scottish exhibit, curated by […]
An online trailer has dropped for the upcoming opera Orson Rehearsed. The work, conceived and written by Daron Hagen, and based on the life of Orson Welles will debut at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago on September 15-16, 2018. Hagen is a prolific composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music for the concert hall and stage. He […]
The upcoming The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles and co-starring Peter Bogdanovich, is not first project pairing of the two filmmakers. Their relationship dates back to 1961 when Bogdanovich organized a Welles film retrospective, the first in the United States, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Welles, […]
Updated on June 9 with video of unveiling at end of post. __________________ A bronze sculpture of Orson Welles will be dedicated on Friday, June 8, at 6:30 p.m. in the late actor-director’s adopted hometown of Woodstock, Illinois. It will be placed near a 118-foot long mural, located along the Main Street Pedway adjacent to Classic Cinemas […]
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival ended with jurors giving a favorable nod to Mark Cousins’ documentary The Eyes of Orson Welles. Of the 17 documentaries submitted in competition, the jury gave the Cannes L’Œil d’or (Golden Eye) documentary award to Stefano Savona’s Samouni Road ― a French-Italian co-production that recounts a 2009 incident in which […]
To commemorate The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, the West Windsor Arts Council in New Jersey is gearing up to launch a new public arts project and install at least 10 Martian-themed sculptures around town over the next few years. It hopes to have the first sculpture in place in time for the broadcast’s 80th […]
British musician and video director Kevin Godley (10cc, Godley & Creme) is set to write and direct a feature film about Orson Welles’ stage debut at Dublin’s Gate Theatre in 1931. The Gate begins shortly before Welles death in 1985 as the 70-year-old filmmaker is haunted by the memories of the start of his professional […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles famously wrote, “A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” He would have certainly been impressed then by Mark Cousins’ penetrating and engaging new documentary, The Eyes of Orson Welles, which had its world premiere today at the Cannes Film […]