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Blu-ray: ‘Moby Dick’ restored on Twilight Time
Moby Dick (Twilight Time, Blu-ray) – “Call me Ishmael.” John Huston’s 1956 film of Herman Melville’s whaling drama turned epic odyssey, a classic of American literature and a staple of high school and...
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Streamers: See Orson Welles’ ‘Too Much Johnson’ and Amazon’s Third Pilot...
Too Much Johnson, the Orson Welles film (or rather film project) that was long thought lost (the last print was reportedly destroyed in a fire in Welles’ Spanish home in 1970), was found a few years...
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The Orson Welles Bookshelf
There are more published books on Orson Welles than on any other film director past or present. The above statement is based on my own anecdotal, far-from-exhaustive and thoroughly unverified research,...
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Schooled by Orson Welles: Roberto Perpignani
Anthony Perkins in ‘The Trial’ Roberto Perpignani quite auspiciously made his official debut as professional film editor on Bernardo Bertolucci‘s feature debut Before the Revolution (1964). He went on...
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Orson Welles goes ‘Around the World’
‘Around the World with Orson Welles’ When handed the raw materials from an unfinished documentary about Elmyr de Hory, an art forger whose life was being written up by biographer Clifford Irving, Orson...
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Orson Welles: ‘The Trial’
“[I]t’s my own picture, unspoiled in the cutting or anything else…. The producers were heroic and got it made, and there isn’t anything I had to compromise—except no sets, and I was happy with the...
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Videophiled: Celebrating Orson Welles in ‘Magician’
Cohen Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (Cohen, Blu-ray, DVD), directed by Chuck Workman and released to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Orson Welles, is not in the...
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All About Gregory: Two by Gregory Ratoff
Akim Tamiroff and Orson Welles in ‘Black Magic’ Who was Gregory Ratoff and why isn’t he better known? A Hollywood fixture on screen, behind the camera, and in Los Angeles society for more than thirty...
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Keith Baxter: On Acting in Orson Welles’ ‘Chimes at Midnight’
Keith Baxter was a struggling young Welsh actor when Orson Welles tapped him to play Prince Hal in the 1960 stage production of Chimes at Midnight in Ireland. Like Welles’ earlier Five Kings, this...
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Blu-ray: Orson Welles’ ‘Chimes at Midnight’ and ‘The Immortal Story’ debut on...
Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) has been difficult to see under any circumstances for at least the last three decades. It suffered from distribution issues during its original release (a...
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