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.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
Touch of Evil was greaton the big screen
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 November 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
xpost There's a good and fairly recent ( last couple of years?) Rosenbaum intvw with her on Youtube
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 16 November 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
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/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
My noise complaints about the Quad are mainly to do with the subway drowning out the soundtrack every ten minutes or so
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 21:42 (five years ago) link
That's the old Quad, Tracer... I haven't found that to be a problem since the renovation.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 21:52 (five years ago) link
AHHH I am obsolete :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
That Chabrol is ... pas trés bon.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
It's an intensely programmed rep/indie house now, not the place where every bad queer movie opens. xp
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 November 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
Stunned by the criticism of Tim Holt's performance in Ambersons itt and others. That's one of the most inspired casting choices ever, and a brilliant performance - the type of second/third generation inherited wealthy kid, totally oblivious, entitled, insulated, and crucially - fey and feckless, emasculated. The way his voice cracks when he's angry. His stubborn indignance and ignorance. I kept thinking about Brett Kavanaugh watching Holt in Ambersons. It's a type I recognize from school but rarely depicted in movies, as far as I know.
Yesterday was the first time I saw it, fantastic and better than Kane at points, but those last 20-30 minutes hurt so much.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
I grade Magnificent Ambersons like rock-climbers grade routes. The most challenging/brilliant stretch is the grade for the entirety.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
At its peaks, it's better than Kane.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Yep.
Holt's inadequacies help his performance.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
btw Molly Haskell
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6061-what-is-and-what-might-have-been
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 November 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
The Mark Cousins' documentary THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES is currently available to stream or download on the BBC iplayer.
Last year at the Edinburgh Festival Cousins' helped put on a small but pleasing selection of Welles' art - drawings, sketches, cartoons, paintings, storyboards etc. Welles definitely had some flair for illustration - there was one spectacularly bad oil painting of Don Quixote.
https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/0ebfaab0-e4b0-4451-b6ab-00d7947c407d-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/4735ee24-a263-4402-986f-61c678767a92-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/236bb8db-c80a-4a33-b190-e504f124ab3a-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
Apparently Orson Welles's flair for art was what got him involved in theatre at the age of 16. After he talked his dad into letting him come to Ireland to practise his art, he wound up involved at the Ambassador theatre claiming to be a well known actor from the States.
― Stevolende, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:55 (five years ago) link
scroll up to the youtube links above of "Orson Welles Sketchbook" for clips of his drawing skills in action
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 January 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
oh wow! shades of quentin blake in falstaff there
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Had the same thought
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2019 17:56 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHfVjOeCc0
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 28 February 2019 06:08 (five years ago) link
The opening 3 minutes of Ambersons reminded me what a bootjack is.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
I've watched six of these for the last hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-nPWT-vVk
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 March 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
watched The Lady from Shanghai today... christ, pick an accent
― flappy bird, Friday, 8 March 2019 07:10 (five years ago) link
Loo
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
he did
always after me Lucky Charms
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 12:04 (five years ago) link
Lol (let me check that i spelled it correctly this time)
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 March 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
The 1939 Welles radio adap of Ambersons on the Criterion is quite something -- only an hour (probably 45 mins w/out the Campbell Soup ads), Orson plays Georgie Minafer seemingly on the edge of hysteria. There's stuff he carries over to the film -- the townspeople chorus have nearly the exact lines, and they sing "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" on the sleigh ride (in Tarkington's book it was The Star-Spangled Banner). Walter Huston plays Eugene Morgan. Ray Collins is the uncle as he is in the movie. No Aunt Fanny!
The other supps delineate almost exhaustively who directed and DP'd what scenes (OW's *business manager* even got in on the reshoot action). Bernard Herrmann was the only collaborator who had his name taken off it in protest, after they fucked with his music by cutting huge swaths of it out (along w/ whole scenes).
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:36 (five years ago) link
Should I try to watch Black Magic before it disappears from MUBI?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 March 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Why don’t you spend Orson Welles’ birthday watching The Fountain of Youth, the pilot, made for Desilu Productions, that would have been an anthology show featuring him as an almost always present host (no, it wasn’t picked up, but it won a Peabody) https://t.co/IeLziO1AZn— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) May 6, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
Orson Welles, the year before his death, doing a reading from Charles Lindbergh's flight journals for The Other Side of the Wind DP Gary Graver's camera. He's in full hamhock mode, and the result is... astonishingly moving! https://t.co/VvDj603umF— 𝖇𝖎𝖌 𝖇𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖓 𝖆𝖉𝖛𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 (@NickPinkerton) April 4, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
Great find!
Who is the “Bill” referred to?
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
no idea
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
Wiki:
The film was intended as a private video letter from Welles to his longtime friend and accountant Bill Cronshaw, who was ill.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
think of what a draining job being his accountant must've been
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
Welles had a voice and he knew how to make the most of it. If you had another actor reproduce every vocal inflection in that performance, but an actor with a voice less resonant, with a different timbre, and it would sound unbearably artificial.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:04 (four years ago) link
And an hour later, another take, Welles would've been phony too -- that's the rub. His voice was his blessing and curse.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
That moment when your daughter is getting her 1st spa treatment from the baby nurse & you realize the teenage years are going to be REALLY expensive. (We’re still home! This is from two days ago. In spite of everything, there were also sweet, happy moments worth remembering. 💜) pic.twitter.com/E7WGkWkS2s— Red Stethoscope (@RedStethoscope) April 4, 2020
this baby looks like welles imo
― ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
Better that than Winston Churchill.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
lolz
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
How's that Hignam book? It's the only one of the major critical bios I haven't read.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
Higham? i read chunks of it in HS, so i dont recall.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 July 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
"The one generalization which is true about America is that everything is true about it. It's impossible to say anything that isn't true, good or bad. Our enemies are right. Our friends are right." -- Orson Welles— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 4, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 July 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
This is pretty great. The man seems at times lost amidst all these young cinephiles but he works his charm. Mostly French, no subs. https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/125173-orson-welles-a-la-cinematheque-francaise-pierre-andre-boutang-guy-seligmann-1983/
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 July 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
that line from Picasso is great
― flappy bird, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
Not 100% sure it's legit (or he got it from Leger) but that's Orson The Raconteur for ya.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 19 July 2020 05:15 (three years ago) link
revisiting Lady From Shanghai...the trial section is a riot
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 27 August 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
I looked at their filmographies, and this checks out:
Something I've noted recently, the case of two previously workmanlike cinematographers--Russell Metty and Charles Lawton, Jr.--who both went Godmode after working with Welles, on The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947), respectively. The man elevated people's game!— 💜💜𝔹𝔼 𝕊𝔸ℕ𝔻 ℕ𝕆𝕋 𝕆𝕀𝕃💜💜 (@NickPinkerton) August 23, 2020
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link
I don't remember The Stranger looking good but I probably watched a crappy public domain copy.
― wasdnous (abanana), Thursday, 27 August 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
This thread never really got off the ground: TS Rudolph Maté vs. Russell Metty
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:00 (three years ago) link
I actually haven't seen The Stranger, that may be the case, but some gems in Russell Metty's subsequent work:
Ride the Pink HorseMagnificent ObsessionAll That Heaven AllowsWritten on the WindA Time to Love and a Time to DieTouch of EvilImitation of LifeSpartacusThe Misfits
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 August 2020 05:02 (three years ago) link