The literary journal, SubtleTea, has published an in-depth interview with Todd Tarbox, author of Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts.
The book is based on recorded conversations between Welles and his mentor, Tarbox’s grandfather.
He tells interviewer David Herrie; “from the first moment my grandfather shared with me his telephone calls and voluminous correspondence with Orson over the years, I was convinced their unique relationship would translate well onto the stage and screen.”
The interview, well worth seeking out, can be found here. SubtleTea also offers look at four beautiful paintings by Todd’s father (and Welles’s classmate at the Todd School for ), Hascy Tarbox.
Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts is one of the most important books on the late filmmaker to come out in recent years.
The conversations capture a relaxed Welles sharing stories with a friend of nearly 60 years and range in subject from film projects to family relationships.
“By editing and arranging many of their recorded conversations at the end of Welles’s life and career, Hill’s grandson, Todd Tarbox, has given us invaluable and candidly intimate glimpses into many of its stages, especially ones towards the beginning and end of that diverse and complicated saga,” film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote.
The New Yorker said of Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts that “Tarbox’s book brings an important new facet to our view of Orson Welles…reveals an altogether different side of the filmmaker.”
For more on Tarbox, read his 2013 essay on his book and his remarks at the 80th anniversary of the Todd Theatre Festival in 2014.
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