I found a half prive copy at The Strand in NYC today and three interviews in this is a thing of hilarious beauty.
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 26 June 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
*price
He was sort of pals with Ernest Bornemann, who is very Welles-like himself, a polymath and outrageous raconteur. There's some Welles stuff in the long interview in the back of The Face on the Cutting Room Floor, and I can't remember if Bornemann also wrote a book about when he was living with and then renting from Welles, in a house Welles was squatting in, and the movie project they worked on that eventually became Ulysses with Kirk Douglas.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 26 June 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
I believe that the movies—I’ll say a terrible thing—have never gone beyond “Kane.” That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been good movies, or great movies. But everything has been done now in movies, to the point of fatigue. You can do it better, but it’s always gonna be the same grammar, you know? Every artistic form—the blank-verse drama, the Greek plays, the novel—has only so many possibilities and only so long a life. And I have a feeling that in movies, until we break completely, we are only increasing the library of good works. I know that as a director of movie actors in front of the camera, I have nowhere to move forward. I can only make another good work.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/my-lunches-with-orson.html
(why being a film critic in the 21st century has essentially been a waste of time for me)
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 June 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
Orson Welles died before Vulgar Auteurism
― Gukbe, Sunday, 30 June 2013 02:55 (ten years ago) link
things that are "a waste of time" I view as absolutely necessary
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah, better wastes back then
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 June 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
also, motherfuckers got paid
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 June 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
"only" increasing
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 June 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Glenn Kenny pleasantly surprised by (most of) the Jaglom book:
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2013/07/my-lunches-with-orson.html
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 July 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Rosenbaum in the comments worth reading.
― Gukbe, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
I had not read any allegations that Jaglom had taped OW secretly, dunno what to think. That sucks if true, but it was a lot harder to hide recorders 30 years ago, especially on your person.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:36 (ten years ago) link
It wasn't in secret, the intro mentions that Welles didn't mind.
It also says that some parts have been edited together, some dialogue filled in when the audio was unintelligible, and some content inserted. So I take some parts with a grain of salt.
― mh, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
Irritatingly, that extract that was online a few weeks ago seems to have been composed of a half dozen bits from the book, so you'll occasionally run into something you already read every dozen pages.
― mh, Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
well apparently Oja Kodar and Barbara Leaming say Welles claimed he was unaware, just before his death.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 July 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I read that in the comments just now :(
― mh, Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
jaglom more like jagoff amirite
― mh, Thursday, 18 July 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
here's something to lead off two years of centennial screenings (we can hope)
For generations, Welles scholars have been intrigued by “Too Much Johnson,” which would seem to represent Welles’s first real experience composing a film to be seen by a paying public, with the support of a professional cast and a professional crew. But for over 50 years, no print had been known to exist....
“Too Much Johnson” has reappeared — discovered not in Spain but in the warehouse of a shipping company in the northern Italian port city of Pordenone, where the footage had apparently been abandoned sometime in the 1970s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/movies/early-film-by-orson-welles-is-rediscovered.html
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/longlost-early-orson-welles-film-discovered-has-un,101353/
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Thursday, 8 August 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
new book on his stay in Italy (1947-52):
http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/a-conspicuous-gap-on-orson-welles-in-italy
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
The Lady From Shanghai comes to BluRay.
http://shop.tcm.com/the-lady-from-shanghai-blu-ray-dvd-combo/detail.php?p=505914&v=tcm_vault-collection_coming-soon
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
audio Shakespeare
https://archive.org/details/Orson_Welles_Shakespeare_Collection
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 March 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
newly digitized Othello opens in NY today
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-orson-welless-othello
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:00 (ten years ago) link
pumped to see too much johnson someday
― slam dunk, Friday, 25 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
Bogdo open his card file (all Welles work, not just dir'd)
love the supermarket photo
http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-orson-welles-file-part-1
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
too many damn adjectives
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:26 (ten years ago) link
http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/32/18/39d1d6d9452db64065538d47986b/welles-and-bogdanovich.jpg
Huh, unexpected new addition to ws via time machine.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
i guess that's why Cybill Shephered transitioned from Elvis
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Right, Orson was slimmer than Elvis by that point.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
oh!ja kodar!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Bogdo giving the camera the stare that would attract blonde models the world over.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
orson giving it the hooded and beseeching look of a man desperate for a blonde model to distract the lickspittle
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 29 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Welles' head looks about 3 sizes too small for that body.
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if he bought some of that frozen fish with the crumb crisp coating.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
Wonder if he bought any donuts or sweet rolls.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:33 (ten years ago) link
I just see Campbell's, and Madame Tana's Instant Chili
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ixt_t46k4Q
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aqPPS8_KswY/Ty6mVQMPh0I/AAAAAAAALaE/IYNAreC-bBA/s400/Mr_burns_state_of_mind+ketchup+or+catsup+grocery+store+broke+the+simpsons.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
I like how Orson is smoking a cigar IN THE FUCKING GROCERY STORE
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
it was 1970 maaan, a much more libertarian America. My childhood doctor smoked in his examining room.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
(he had a hacking cough, too)
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
a much more libertarian America
I think in this one instance, you can admit it was a dumber America.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
tbh i think my ideal america would let orson welles do whatever the fuck he wants
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
I am not a libertarian
otoh, there was no house music
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
also TV comedy was actually funny
Thanks for playing.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
next week we dissect Othello, right
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
they look like they've just been caught in that photo. did they go for the discount ground beef or something?
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 00:53 (ten years ago) link
the tragedy of america is he was allowed to smoke in the supermarket but not to make a movie
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link
The tragedy is he was allowed in the supermarket.
― Cronk's Not Cronk (Eric H.), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 01:20 (ten years ago) link