Orson Welles

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

the opening 100pp about soil yield in the texas hill country are vital you slackers

do you start in balbec, too

they actually are great. The original settlers awed by the seemingly endless fields of grass, only to be reaping dust a few decades later

Coming Soon https://t.co/YtkQFPimWe

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icymi

https://www.criterion.com/films/28711-the-magnificent-ambersons

Can't wait.

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shoulda waited til they find those 40 minutes tho

They shouldn't make any more movies period until they find those 40 minutes.

good idea, i got enough to watch

excerpts from an unfinished 1982 memoir by Welles

be very interested in reading this!

did he publish a memoir? you could probably assemble one from all the interviews in his last 15 years, but he's a rather unreliable narrator.

yeah, that's kind of what I like about Welle's pronouncements about his life

it seems the unpublished draft of the memoir was donated to the University of Michigan by Oja Kodar a few years ago

Wiki entry on the This is Orson Welles bk w/ P Bog mentions the memoirs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_is_Orson_Welles

shoulda waited til they find those 40 minutes tho

Even if they found the 40 minutes, that still wouldn't change the fact Tim Holt is the leading man.

On another Welles note, Kino's spiffy version of The Stranger (transferred from the Library Of Congress print) is up on Netflix Instant.

finally getting Volume 2 of the Callow bio from the library. HELLO AMERICANS!

http://pics.me.me/orson-welles-for-peeps-marshmallon-peeps-rodda-when-the-desire-32089044.png

The flowery text is great: prevails, expedite, thespian, presumptuously.

finishing up volume 2 of the Callow bio, making me want to watch Welles' Macbeth for the first time since I saw it in high school English class. Really enjoying Callow's writing, about the only time I doubted his POV was when he went into a strange digression about the Black Dahlia murder (and claiming it had been definitively solved)

apparently OW yelled at the cast and crew of Other Side for singing "happy birthday" on his 60th, then waited til they left to eat a carton of ice cream alone.

There are times when he needs to expedite the consumption of energy-producing ice cream.

got Volume 3 and... wait there's going to be a fourth volume?!

this is going to be as bad as waiting for Lewisohn and Caro to finish up

I was struggling to pick a movie to watch last night after the exhausting SCOTUS hearings and eventually picked Citizen Kane. hadn't seen it in at least a decade. made me feel better without being totally escapist. one line jumped out at me, Gettys to Kane in the hotel: "I'm fighting for my life, not just my political life, my life!"

had to look these up after Callow's glowing reviews in v. 3 and I have to say, they do not dissapoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEbZ_0XC-zY

Repost from the "Famous People In Comics" thread.

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http://thefifthbranch.com/images/oldies/superman/wellessaves.jpg

From this I ascertain that Wayne Boring probably didn't really know what Orson Welles looked like, but he gave it a shot anyway.

Will Eisner did it better

new essay collection

http://filmint.nu/?p=24970

i'd missed the Oja Kodar/Gary Graver commentary on Criterion's F for Fake til now... I think Oja comes off better than she necessarily does onscreen in the last two films.

Touch of Evil was greaton the big screen

xpost There's a good and fairly recent ( last couple of years?) Rosenbaum intvw with her on Youtube

The NYC Quad (if they aren't shut by noise complaints) is doing a Welles acting-for-hire series that includes some things I've never heard of (a Chabrol film co-starring Anthony Perkins).

https://quadcinema.com/program/actor-for-hire-the-other-side-of-orson-welles/