Orson Welles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bogdanovich#Film_critic

Who the Devil Made It is essential.

also if Wiki is to be believed, he wrote his first book about Welles 9 years before they became friends.

oh gosh

I completely misremembered

it's from this bit of the great outdoor fight

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Akrakabo is really awesome, love the traditional breaking out from behind the modern veil at the end. I think I went back to the 2 minute mark and re-listened to the end 2 or 3 times in a row. Will listen to Accelerate for sure. I don't have much knowledge of Bachata but your comment has me intrigued. i feel like afro pop has a natural lean into the carribean music scene of course, but i would be curious to listen for the links to more classic afro-latin music, perhaps this is already happening? like wizkid-popcaan is a natural fit of course, but what about Wizkid teaming up with Mexican or Columbian pop-stars?

speaking of wizkid, Sweet Love is fantastic, happy to see he stuck with the Yoruba as well. This is maybe my favourite first blush of a Wizkid song, normally he takes a bit for me to really get into. Maybe that bodes well for its shot at breaking out internationally. What do you guys figure his track to a breakout US hit is? Now that he has name recognition from One Dance, does he hope for a streaming hit that breaks though? or would he get enough of a push to get on radio before that? i assume the former, but not sure if he gets a push on radio due to the deal. And does he get on some spotify recommended playlists?

fuckin love Thando Lok'dlala, Nkwz should sing on every SA house song. I feel like DrumeticBoyz have turned a corner toward pop, but managing to stay a bit true to their GQOM roots. I agree longneck, definitely got some of Babes affect on it for sure.

dog latin, are you around? there is new Eddy Kenzo, called Jubilation

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I like it, not as much as Sitya Loss, but another great track, curious to hear from another Kenzo fan

really love this new durban track too, Colours Of Sound - Emuva (feat. SneMusiq). brutal name for the DJ's but this song is getting me thru some cold winter days. feels like driving around a rich neighbourhood and not giving a shit that the folks in it are looking down on you.

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/The fundamental level of these people's unseriousness contrasted with the seriousness of their jobs is fucking mindblowing./

A different story in the Senate, really.

"It’s true Democrats hold only nine of the 20 seats on the committee, and would only have been able to condition Rosenstein’s approval on his willingness to appoint a special prosecutor if they had stood together and persuaded at least one Republican to join them. But had the parties been reversed, the Republican Party would have formed a united phalanx to demand that Rosenstein, /as a patriotic American/, must look beyond party and promise to give the country a truly independent, non-partisan investigation. There would have been press conferences with all nine senators wearing flag pins and looking stern, a major media offensive asking which Democrat on the committee cared enough about this nation to join them, and possibly the composition of some songs about brave deputy attorneys general.

"Instead, the Democrats only managed some grumbling and a few uncoordinated questions at the hearing."

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/senate-democrats-blow-best-chance-to-demand-special-russia-prosecutor🔗/

^^ No, I don't understand this post either. I was just reading the thread and then the app (or a third man) generated this post.

Thought those were some of Welles' 5x7 dialogue cards : )

@labuzamovies
The only real concern I see is what Netflix will do with the 35mm. Do they even have a vault?

they can use an orange is the new black jail cell set

they could invest in a norwegian insane asylum

Ignatiy V on the 75th anniv of Ambersons

http://www.avclub.com/article/75-years-later-orson-welles-troubled-follow-citize-251171

next year at Cannes?

http://www.wellesnet.com/netflix-eyes-cannes-for-the-other-side-of-the-wind-premiere/

hfs "My Lunches With Orson" does not disappoint! Dying @ his petty European prejudices ("Sardinians have stubby fingers. Croatians have short necks. Everybody knows these things.")

he was OTM about Reagan, Ike, and FDR, fullashit about Renoir, Jimmy Stewart, Bogart.

is that the Jaglom book?

Croatians have short necks

"Orson you can't say that"

"Measure them, measure them!"

well it's credited to Biskind (cuz he edited it) but yes it's transcripts of Jaglom's recordings. Which Orson asked him to make (contrary to what is stipulated upthread)

it's just a joy to read, laugh-out-loud funny

I'm still waiting for the third volume in paperback of Callow's biography. Hardcovers are beyond my budget atm.

It's solid, the best critical bio.

it's odd, prior to this book, outside of his involvement with Easy Rider I had absolutely no knowledge of Jaglom's work. Never heard of it, never seen any of it.

jaglom has always skeeved me out viscerally

wiki summaries of his work do not inspire confidence. and the one lunch where Orson gives him notes on one of his screenplays (which sounds fucking awful) his suggestions are 100% better than the crap Jaglom had.

I don't think Welles cultivated a group of wormy little fuckers but they certainly sought him out

Some of Jaglom's films are worth seeing imho - Tracks, Sitting Ducks, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Deja Vu. His debut, A Safe Place, which tries to relocate the nouvelle vague to New York and features a cameo from Welles as a magician in Central Park, is one of the great 'I wish I could have seen the faces of the Columbia executives when they screened this one' movies.

There's not a lot going on in this interview, but I didn't expect to see Welles and Andy Kaufman together!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGlWAFy1LU

oh hell yeah, i just stumbled on that video a few weeks ago during an andy kaufman youtube wormhole. so good

well there is something going on, Welles talking to Kaufman about a show he apparently hated doing.

Is Welles subbing for Dinah Shore there? It's obviously not the Carson set (tho I'm p sure OW subbed there too).

Merv Griffin show, I think

OK, he was a guest with Griffin a lot (including the evening before he died). The set looks a little too homey for Merv though.

OK, it is Griffin, per the AV Club...

well!

http://www.wellesnet.com/other-side-wind-screening/

well indeed

i wonder if surviving cast member Rich Little was there; I don't see him.

Crispin had a better seat than Tarantella tho!

pretty interesting ... wonder if it'll actually be good?

Reading the third Callow bio now. Possibly the best of these for me so far, especially since it dives into my fave years of Welles' life. Callow often a laugh out loud funny writer, too.

I'd read another three

yeah, me too!

Reading the third Callow bio now. Possibly the best of these for me so far, especially since it dives into my fave years of Welles' life. Callow often a laugh out loud funny writer, too.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee),

Agreed. The Touch of Evil captures that sense of exhilaration shared by Heston, Leigh, Welles, the supporting cast, and crew who knew they were making something that pushed them beyond their abilities.

The chapter on Olivier and Rhinoceros is grimly funny too.

The radio broadcasts that Orson Welles dedicated to the case of Isaac Woodard, Jr. deserve to be as well known as his War of the Worlds: https://t.co/ort1TjzTFI

— 𝕿𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞 𝕯𝖆𝖞 (@NickPinkerton) May 6, 2018

started in on the Callow bio, so far it's pretty great. 99% of the theater references go over my head, but whatever.

which volume?

Volume 1, figured it would be best to start at the beginning!

It's the only one I haven't read.

Callow's writing has both an acidity and a floridness that I associate with the theater (and also find intermittently silly and charming). Seems pretty perceptive in general though, and his editorial asides are always interesting.

Vol. 1 is essential. The preschool genius years, the truth about the semi-mythic trip to Ireland, the triumph of the early Mercury plays and then the first of many disastrous follies with Five Kings. All fascinating stuff.

Oh, and Kane, if you're not bored of that.

I tend to skip first volumes. I didn't even read the first part of Caro's LBJ book.

Patrick McGilligan's 2015 bio I did read.

I guess I just trust an old luvvie like Callow more on the early years because they're so theatre-focused. Convinced a relative ignoramus like me anyway.

Probably no one needs to read an in-depth examination of every play young Orson produced at the Todd School but I still ate it up

I didn't even read the first part of Caro's LBJ book

lol me too, looked a bit dreary (and is also summarized pretty succinctly in subsequent volumes)

depends how much you're dying to read about young LBJ stealing his high school glee club's election, or whatever

starting with like a hundred pages about his great-grandparents or whatever is the ultimate taunt to the undecided reader from Caro