Orson Welles

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

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it seems the unpublished draft of the memoir was donated to the University of Michigan by Oja Kodar a few years ago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

My noise complaints about the Quad are mainly to do with the subway drowning out the soundtrack every ten minutes or so

That's the old Quad, Tracer... I haven't found that to be a problem since the renovation.

AHHH I am obsolete :(

That Chabrol is ... pas trés bon.

It's an intensely programmed rep/indie house now, not the place where every bad queer movie opens. xp

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.

I grade Magnificent Ambersons like rock-climbers grade routes. The most challenging/brilliant stretch is the grade for the entirety.

At its peaks, it's better than Kane.

Yep.

Holt's inadequacies help his performance.

btw Molly Haskell

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6061-what-is-and-what-might-have-been

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.

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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.

scroll up to the youtube links above of "Orson Welles Sketchbook" for clips of his drawing skills in action

oh wow! shades of quentin blake in falstaff there

Had the same thought

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHfVjOeCc0

The opening 3 minutes of Ambersons reminded me what a bootjack is.

I've watched six of these for the last hour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT-nPWT-vVk

watched The Lady from Shanghai today... christ, pick an accent