Orson Welles

[GA Russell]

Today is Orson Welles' 100th birthday!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles

Other than Citizen Kane, what would you say was his best movie? Or if not his "best," your favorite?

Edited May 6, 2015 by GA Russell

[kh1958]

A toss up between The Magnificent Ambersons and A Touch of Evil.

[gmonahan]

As Director, "Touch of Evil." As actor, maybe "Compulsion."

gregmo

[duaneiac]

As an actor -- The Third Man

As a director -- Touch of Evil (that opening tracking shot is just amazing)

I also find a lot to like about Mr. Arkadin and wish he had been able to make it with a bigger budget. It's not a really good movie, but it had the prospects of becoming a great movie if he had had the proper money and time budgets.

[medjuck]

I've got to admit I've got a soft spot for The Lady from Shanghai.

[aparxa]

I haven't seen that much.

Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and A Touch of Evil are my favorites.

Falstaff and The Trial are eye-candy but difficult to enjoy.

No fondness for The Stranger.

I am in huge minority, but I've found that the intensity of the Third Man almost vanishes from the moment Welles gets on screen.

[miles65]

Touch of evil

The lady from Shanghai

I remember I liked them when I saw them but haven't seen the for a long time.

Journey into fear

The stranger

[BFrank]

Nice piece in Monday's SF Chron: Reflecting on the career and life Orson Welles at 100

[clifford_thornton]

Touch of Evil is the shit!

[kinuta]

Besides Citizen Kane, much the same as everyone else.

The Magnificent Ambersons, can only imagine what it would have been like without the studio's criminal butchery.

Touch Of Evil

Lady From Shanghai

[medjuck]

You can see Too Much Johnson here. Long lost,never completed early film. I wish they'd edited it but still wroth seeing:

http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-print

[l p]

i've only seen kane and 'F for Fake' (1974). F for Fake was good.

[kinuta]

The documentary It's All True was also very interesting.

[JSngry]

I liked his Othello. Don't know how "Shakespearean " it really was, but fuck it, Orson Welles, and all that came with that.

Also, comedy record.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/begatting-of-the-president-mw0000890802

[kinuta]

That was really amazing, thanks for the upload.

[alankin]

Producers Turn to Indiegogo to Finance Orson Welles’s Final Film

MAY 7, 2015

Orson Welles, left, on the set of "The Other Side of the Wind," his last film. Peter Bogdanovich, center, is part of a push to release it. CreditLarry Jackson

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Add a few more twists to the decades-long quest to release “The Other Side of the Wind,” the unfinished final film of Orson Welles.

In October, a team of producers pulled off a feat that had bedeviled various directors, movie companies and TV networks since Welles died in 1985: They secured the rights to 1,083 reels of “The Other Side of the Wind” footage stored in a warehouse outside Paris. Work began to raise millions of dollars to complete the film [...]

Link to New York Times article: http://nyti.ms/1Ej15DQ

Edited May 7, 2015 by alankin

[Soulstation1]

The Loft Cinema in Tucson is showing an OW film every Thursday in May

[bluesoul]

TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear.

[crisp]

Huge season at the BFI in London: details.

I also like Touch of Evil best, then Lady From Shanghai. I struggle with the literary adaptaions (Shakespeare, Kafka).

[duaneiac]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhWM4_pIKVg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs

[GA Russell]

TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear.

Thanks bluesoul!

[mjzee]

Orson Welles's thoughts on pastrami (4th letter down) from 1946:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/from-the-american-scene-one-touch-of-delicatessen/

Edited May 8, 2015 by mjzee

[Soulstation1]

Going to see Touch Of Evil on the BIG screen Thursday

[gmonahan]

TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear.

They showed "MacBeth" last Friday, and I caught most of it. Dark production of a dark play and ill-fated too, since it was made at the same time as Olivier's far more famous and successful "Hamlet," but I thought it was pretty good. Liked the Scottish accents!

gregmo

[danasgoodstuff]

TCM is showing Orson Wells films each Friday this month. Tonight is Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, and Journey Into Fear.

They showed "MacBeth" last Friday, and I caught most of it. Dark production of a dark play and ill-fated too, since it was made at the same time as Olivier's far more famous and successful "Hamlet," but I thought it was pretty good. Liked the Scottish accents!

gregmo

Wasn't McBeth the last Gaelic speaking King of Scotland?