OW Celebration links and info of interest

[Wellesnet]

The Colchester Arts Centre in Essex will present THE MUSIC OF ORSON WELLES on Sunday, Nov. 24.
Composer Jason Frederick will lecture and lead performances of scores written by Herrmann, Mancini, Barry, Legrand and more.

http://wellesnet.com/music-orson-welles-colchester/

[Le Chiffre]

That sounds like a lot of fun.

[Wellesnet]

Zagreb’s Tuskanac Cinema is presenting an Orson Welles retrospective on September 23-28, 2019 featuring 10 films.

The festival will fetaure early masterpieces (Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons); the adaptations of threee Shakespearean dramas (Othello, Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight ); crime films (The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai, Mr Arkadin and Touch of Evil ; and the adaptation of Kafka’s novel The Trial.

[Wellesnet]

Three-film Orson Welles retrospect set for March in Denver:
https://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-denver/

The three-film retrospect begins on March 17 with the 1947 thriller The Lady from Shanghai, co-starring Welles' then-wife Rita Hayworth.

It will be followed a week later with Welles' Shakespearean triumph of 1965, Chimes at Midnight on March 24. The film series concludes with the 1973 film essay F for Fake on March 31. All showings will take place at 7 p.m.

[tonyw]

For us, these are the "usual suspects" but we also have to remember that not many people have seen them so this is a great opportunity to discover his work and move on to others such as the German documentary ONE MAN BAND that also needs subtitling for the actual commentary over Orson's scenes.

[Wellesnet]

NYT article from October 21st, 1981:
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/21/movi ... lsrc=aw.ds

[Matthew Asprey Gear]

Hi Wellesians,

I read this board religiously although I've never actually posted here. I want to reach out to the hardcore fan base to announce that my 12-week online Welles course, 'The Other Side of the Shadow', will be starting again on August 21, 2021. This will be the third time I've run the program.

I've designed the course to work as both an overview of Welles's film work as well as a deeper dive for serious Wellesians. I pay a great deal of attention to the unfinished and unproduced projects I have researched in the archives. We don't move through the work chronologically but thematically - in fact, Kane and Ambersons are at the very end of the course. The idea is to provide participants with a new angle on Welles's work and a forum for serious discussion with like-minded enthusiasts.

Each 2-hour session consists of an original 50-minute lecture presentation followed by a group discussion about the week's nominated film(s). I limit each class to 12 people, so everybody has an opportunity to participate in the discussion. The course fee is US$130.

I'm the author of 'At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City' (2016) and have published studies of Welles's unmade screenplays in Bright Lights Film Journal and the Hemingway Review. I've researched Welles's papers and materials at the archives in Indiana, Michigan, Turin, and Munich.

If anybody here is interested in signing up, or would like to recommend the course to a friend, please let me know. Here is a link to the course schedule (plus testimonials from past students) as well as a trailer for the course:

https://matthewasprey2.wordpress.com/20 ... he-shadow/

[Wellesnet]

Thanks for letting us know about this, Mathew. Good luck with the class!