WELLESNET MESSAGE BOARD

Parts of the unpublished memoir will be read at Ann Arbor this Sunday:
https://twitter.com/umichARTS/status/606905796400660481

Joseph McBride has done this splendid write-up on the Barcelona events:
http://www.wellesnet.com/follow-el-rey- ... -midnight/

In Orange county, near Los Angeles. Features lectures by film historians Phillip Harwood and Foster Hirsch:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/mo ... 1.10524785

Wellesnet wrote:Parts of the unpublished memoir will be read at Ann Arbor this Sunday:
https://twitter.com/umichARTS/status/606905796400660481

Technically, these excerpts were read from the stage of the Detroit Film Theater at the Art Institute in Detroit following the screening/live performance of TOO MUCH JOHNSON. Four of the U-M Theater students who had participated in the JOHNSON presentation recited memoir segments related to Welles' experience in Ireland at the age of 16. In addition to the famous Gate Theater audition story, the memoir recounted a trip into the Irish hills in search of fairies and was written in a style similar to the Welles-penned Paris Vogue articles of the early 80s.

Wellesnet founder Jeff Wilson brings us news from Wellespring at U-M... Criterion is doing Othello, Chimes and Immortal Story, and other interesting bits you don't want to miss about "The Other Side of the Wind" and "Too Much Johnson."
http://www.wellesnet.com/wellespring-a- ... -michigan/

World Socialist Website on the Orson Welles symposium at University of Michigan:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/0 ... l-j13.html

Joe McBride presents Ambersons in San Rafael theatre:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

SAN RAFAEL SOCKO FOR "AMBERSONS"": Sunday, June 14, I presented my favorite movie (twice) sat the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, California. We showed a 35mm print of Orson Welles's mutilated masterpiece THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS along with the trailer and several scenes from Roger Ryan's creative "reconstruction" of what the original Welles version was like. We had a total of more than 100 people in all for both showings. Many in the audience had not seen AMBERSONS. They were engrossed in it and enthralled by Roger's work. One person told me she had always wanted to know what the film originally was like, and that this was a great way to find out. This was the sixth place I have presented the AMBERSONS program this year, after Barcelona, Kenosha (Wis.), Woodstock (Ill.), Bloomington (Ind.), and New York. The audiences have always been appreciative and have had good questions; they always want to keep learning more about this great film and what happened to it. My thanks and kudos to Roger -- and Orson, and Agnes Moorehead, and Tim Holt, et al -- and to Richard Peterson, the intrepid and amiable Smith Rafael programmer who is curating a massive Welles series that runs into the fall.

Yes, let us not forget Tim Holt who did the best of a bad job portraying a character who could be really unlikeable yet present the human being within.

I asked TCM UK on Twitter if they were going to mark the anniversary in any way, and they said no.

Very disappointing

Typical UK! Only two Welles films shown in the new Home Arts Cinema complex last month - THE STRANGER and LADY FROM SHANGHAI - without any special celebration and A FULLER LIFE is only being shown grudgingly for two night!

The BFI have issued their press release for their August activities, the Welles section of which gives the new details that Simon Callow will give a talk on Orson Welles and Theatre as adjunct to a screening of Chimes, and that Stefan Droessler will present a six-programme series on The Unknown Orson Welles (I'm taking this as a hopeful sign that we might get his reconstruction of Journey as speculated above!). Press release:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/ ... -06-16.pdf.
I anticipate the full August programme will be released in the next few days!

The BFI's Magazine, Sight and Sound, devotes 8 pages of its July issue (including pictures) to an article by Ben Walter, Rare Genius: The Other Side of Orson Welles, as well as awarding the front cover to Welles, and the back cover, inside and out, to advertisements for the season and the run of The Third Man respectively; it also includes an article on John Huston and The Misfits which is enjoying a run at the moment. Promo here: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sigh ... 2015-issue.

Study Day at the Cinematheque Francais in Paris, June 19th
"ORSON WELLES: A FILMMAKER AROUND THE WORLD"
(Conferences, Dialogues, Round Table, Screenings)
"Orson Welles’ destiny in Hollywood is paradoxical, as we all know: he had all freedom to make his first feature Citizen Kane at only 25, but within a few years became the director no producers would trust anymore. Then started a hardly interrupted exile from 1947 to 1970 that Youssef Ishaghpour called Welles’ “nomadic period”. In 1975, after another few years of going back and forth between the Old and the New World, he definitely settled back to the United States. Three decades of an incredible creativity around the world. And one day to attempt to grasp, strolling from one country to another, the aim of such a work spread all over the place but still always able to adapt to any situation."
- Bernard Benoliel, François Thomas
With: Dominique Antoine (producer of The Other Side of the Wind), Jean-Pierre Berthomé (Film critic), Stefan Drössler (Director of the Film Museum of Munich), Esteve Riambau (director of the Filmoteca de Catalunya), François Thomas (professor at the University of La Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris), Jean-Paul Trias (professor at University Paul Valéry, Montpellier), Anca Visdei (writer).

Don Quixote workprint on the 29th:
http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-sall ... 18147.html

Complete schedule:
http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-sall ... s,633.html

For anyone interested, I went to the Cinemateque Francais yesterday to watch Cagliostro. The store on the second floor is selling the French Blu-Ray of Mr. Arkadin ahead of its official July the 8th release date. Having watched it already, I highly recommend any interested Welles fans in Paris pick up a copy.

Thanks for the info, Sled. Did CAGLIOSTRO have the original spooky ending that was cut from the American release? Which version of Arkadin is it that's being sold? Are you going to the Don Quixote showing too?

BTW, for anyone who speaks French, here's an interview about the festival with Francois Thomas, co-author of ORSON WELLES AT WORK:
http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/dans-sall ... v,875.html

Thanks for the info, Tadao. There's also a good story on THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS in this month's issue of EMPIRE, another major film magazine from Britain. Features quotes from Joseph McBride and Roger Ryan. Now on newsstands. The issue can also be read online at:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/265050878/Emp ... 015#scribd
(The Ambersons story, called THE AMBERSONS TAPES, is on page 107)