Chuck Workman’s much-anticipated documentary Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles will debut at the Telluride Film Festival this weekend. The Colorado festival will also show the long-lost footage from Welles’ 1938 stage show Too Much Johnson at the Labor Day weekend event. The footage was discovered and restored last fall. Magician, which […]
Director-author and Orson Welles confidante Peter Bogdanovich is looking back at his late friend’s movies in a series of essays on his blog. 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 […]
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times have fine pieces this week on Orson Welles confidante Peter Bogdanovich. Speaking with Marc Myers in the January 9 edition of the WSJ, the Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter of “The Last Picture Show” and “Paper Moon reflected on his glory days in the 1970s – specifically […]
The seemingly impending completion of Orson Welles’ unfinished “The Other Side of the Wind” is a familiar story to fans. Sketchy reports surface online that a deal has been reached, or Welles’ confidantes hint its world premiere is just around the corner. Hopes are raised, then dashed. Director Peter Bogdanonich, who co-starred in the film […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles author-confidant-filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich returns to the big-screen at the helm of a new Jennifer Aniston film. Bogdanovich will direct Aniston, Cybill Shepherd, Brie Larson and Owen Wilson in “She’s Funny That Way,” from a screenplay he wrote with his ex-wife, Louise Stratten. The comedy, earlier titled “Squirrel to the Nuts,” […]
Touch of Evil will be screened at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on Friday, January 29 at 7:00 and director Peter Bogdanovich will be on hand to introduce the film and talk about working with Welles. After the screening Bogdanovich will be joined by James Naremore, the author of The Magic World of Orson Welles, […]
Chris Welles Feder’s wonderful new book about her life and times with Orson Welles, In My Father’s Shadow has just been released by Agonquin Books. Chris Welles began her book tour in San Francisco with a showing of The Lady From Shanghai at the Rafael Theatre on November 2, and earlier that day Alex Fraser […]
It’s hard to complain too loudly when Warner Home Video finally brings out one of their many movies people have been waiting to see on Blue Ray and DVD. Yet, the way Warners has been carelessly dropping film gems on the marketplace without any advance publicity, is rather disheartening, to say the least. Such classics […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH Here are Peter Bogdanovich’s comments regarding the status of completing The Other Side of the Wind as recorded in San Francisco on March 9, 2008. Following the interview, I have included the opening narration from Orson Welles original script for The Other Side of the Wind. Welles originally intended to speak the […]
Director and Orson Welles authority, Peter Bogdanovich will be in residence this weekend at San Francisco’s historic movie palace, The Castro Theater, where he will be introducing a mini-retrospective of his films. Here is a link to the schedule of Mr. Bogdanovich’s in-person appearances. The Bogdanovich movies scheduled to be shown, include: Targets, The Last […]
Craig Weinstein and Drew Reiber, two Wellesnet correspondents in Florida wrote to report that Peter Bogdanovich appeared at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando last night (March 30th) and announced that Showtime’s long simmering deal to finance the completion of The Other Side of the Wind has finally been consummated. Apparently the contract was as […]
Here is Peter Bogdanovich’s reply to the interview with Charles Higham, below, that appeared in The New York Times on September 17, 1970. Mr. Higham’s interview, it should be noted, was conducted with himself. In other words, he wrote both the questions and the answers, which is of course, why it is now so apparent […]