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IT''S ALL TRUE is streaming now on CBS All Access

https://www.cbs.com/movies/its-all-true ... QKJRrJGs8/

RayKelly wrote:IT''S ALL TRUE is streaming now on CBS All Access

https://www.cbs.com/movies/its-all-true ... QKJRrJGs8/

Ugh, that trailer looks like it was from a second or third generation VHS tape. I hope the film itself looks at least as good as the DVD (although, it really should look better).

Roger Ryan wrote:Ugh, that trailer looks like it was from a second or third generation VHS tape. I hope the film itself looks at least as good as the DVD (although, it really should look better).

There was a remastered DCP shown at MoMA in spring 2019. I would hope they used that.

Is anyone currently working on It's All True? Preserving footage and /or assembling a complete narrative? By the complete narrative I refer to the extensive narrative that Catherine Benamou expounds in her essential book on IAT. Which could be laid out using clips, stills and a guiding narration.

I take it that it would be better to set aside "My Friend Bonito" (to become a separate documentary?) and focus on the more important Brazilian material.

It strikes me... how different our view of Welles would have been, if It's All True had been completed. Because IAT is itself so different from everything else that he did, especially for being outdoors, with an appreciation of the natural world, and optimistic, as a realization of Welles' optimistic political populism. It would have then arrived in acute and salutary contrast to the contemporaneous pessimism of the Magnificent Ambersons.

And then if IAT had come to successful completion, in conjunction with the original Ambersons, where would Welles have gone from there?

These kind of, "as the twig is bent..." ponderings are always fun.

But in this case, I'd bet that the arc of Orson's career - and life - would have still been similar to what we know?

The deep threads woven into both, and his prickly independence as an artist, would have still been the same.

- Craig

Speaking of (Bonito the Bull): The Brave One was on HBO Max last week.

From TCM's website-
On 15 Apr 1957, Life reported that Fred Zinnemann credited documentarian Robert Flaherty with the original idea, which Orson Welles then bought in 1941 and tried to produce.
In the same article, Willis O’Brien (King Kong) alleged that The Brave One's story should be credited to him, because years earlier he sold the Emilio story to Jesse Lasky, Jr., who then sold it to Ed Nassour.]

From The Orson Welles Appreciation Society-

Jack Hart-
Of course Orson was a fan of bull fighting and even did some himself if memory serves.
I think that died off later.
I remember him saying he couldn’t sleep without an animal in the room.
He even had finches in his bedroom.
Orson used to have larger dogs.
Mastiffs I believe.
Later years a tiny dog he could take with him.

22-min AFI short on Four Men On A Raft:
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/761917274

Forgotten Brazil visit uncovered in ‘It’s All True’ scans:
https://www.wellesnet.com/brazil-visit-uncovered/

Rogerio Sganzerla made a tetrology on Welles in Brazil:

https://youtu.be/TWhmxCfUvOI?si=BRrwM3xcxkDvidiX

Welles's Language 1990

https://youtu.be/FBnGZsjCqS8?si=HEnLb_Jyruxd7_7Y


It's Not All True. 1985

https://youtu.be/gYFAXsqoOTo?si=KSk4Wcq5ACIWUMql

Brazil 1981


All is Brazil, 2001: can't locate on internet: this is Brazil as seen through Welles's eyes.

The first 2 are available on YouTube with English subtitles.

Thanks Tony, I was only aware of one of these being on YouTube.

Would be great to see these one day being included on a future home video release of 'It's All True'.

I would love to see It's All True on Blu-ray but with the recent news that disc sales are down and Best Buy will no longer to sell physical discs next year we will see fewer movies to buy and put on our shelves.

As The Raft of Orson Welles, currently streaming on the Kanopy library-based streaming app.

If your local library carries it; a breathtaking array of films.

Does anybody know if Joe Biroc shot Four Men on a Raft?