The schedule for Orson Welles: The Studio Years and Beyond, includes:
Thursday, May 4: Orson Welles Solo and The Trial. Virtually unseen footage of dramatic readings by Orson Welles begins this tribute to the legendary director-star hosted by Dröessler. It will followed by a new DCP restoration of Welles' 1962 adaptation of The Trial starring Anthony Perkins.
Friday, May 5: A double bill of Wellesian film noir, Touch of Evil (1958) and The Lady From Shanghai (1947).
Saturday, May 6: Orson Welles, Shylock and King Lear hosted by Dröessler features the 2015 reconstruction of The Merchant of Venice. It will followed by a second 100-minute program with Dröessler, Orson Welles Rarities, which includes The Deep trailer, the amusing London sketches and screen tests for The Dreamers.
Sunday, May 7: Citizen Kane (1941), Welles' landmark Hollywood debut; and F For Fake (1973), one of his final completed projects, close out Orson Welles: The Studio Years and Beyond.
Movies filmed in Zagreb, Croatia – including Orson Welles' The Trial – are the subject of a new exhibit at the Zagreb City Museum. Now through Nov. 2, 2014, A City of Film – A Factory of Dreams will salute the cinematic side of Zagreb
Put Orson Welles on a stamp to mark his 100th birthday
Wellesnet is joining with Woodstock Celebrates in asking the U.S. Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring Orson Welles in May 2015.
We are calling on all our members to take the time to write a letter to the U.S. Postal Service in support of the stamp.
Requests must be submitted to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee in writing.
Proposals made by e-mail will not receive a response.
Stamp proposals should be submitted to the following address:
Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
c/o Stamp Development
U.S. Postal Service
475 L’Enfant Plaza SW, Room 3300
Washington, DC 20260-3501
The good folks in Woodstock, busy preparing the 2018 Orson Welles Creative Arts Festival (scheduled for October) have graciously allowed us to link to this beautiful 4-minute video made for their 2016 OW fest. Brings back fond memories of being in the audience for that fascinating painting performance by Tibetan artist Tashi Norbu, who he said was partially inspired by Welles's "Lady From Shanghai". It was like watching a Jackson Pollock come to life:
"We found this archive just by chance. I was working on my upcoming book about Too Much Johnson and talking to Professor Franco Prono of the University of Turin," said Studer, a PhD student at Udine University. "Professor Prono told me, 'Did you know at the National Cinema Museum in Turin that we have an Orson Welles archive?' And I said, 'What? Are you kidding me?' Even (noted Welles scholar) Ciro Giorgini did not know anything about Turin."
One of the main things the Turin archive has that UM archive doesn't is the script for "Soldier, Soldier", written in the late 1960s.