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Post by RNL on Dec 15, 2005 20:06:55 GMT
Orson Welles (1915-1985)
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Post by Vercetti on Dec 15, 2005 20:11:51 GMT
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Dec 15, 2005 22:41:34 GMT
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Post by Vercetti on Dec 16, 2005 0:35:08 GMT
Thanks for reminding me Mike. I forgot Touch of Evil was one of them.
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Post by Capo on Dec 16, 2005 17:30:18 GMT
1. Touch of Evil 1958 2. Citizen Kane 1941 3. The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
Vercetti, where is that quote from? I don't know whether to be inspired by it or put off filmmaking altogether. Welles is the one artist I want to discover, study and delve into the most out of all the directors that remain largely unseen by me.
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Post by Vercetti on Dec 16, 2005 17:42:36 GMT
If memory serves, it's the very final scene of The Battle Over Citizen Kane. The interview was probably around his death.
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Post by jake on Dec 16, 2005 19:50:42 GMT
Citizen Kane (1941) The Lady from Shanghai (1948) Touch of Evil (1958) The Magnificent Ambersons is finally getting a release in a box set with Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil next year. ;D
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jan 10, 2006 16:24:29 GMT
I think it is essential viewing for all fans of Orson Welles to watch a 1993 documentary produced that chronicaled the ill-fated expedition Welles & Co. made to South America to film a documentary series about the culture and the people of the land. Some great aachive fotage and insight, it also shows you the survining material that Welles and his collaborators shot before the project was yanked. Facinating stuff, truly breathtaking visuals but of course, no real audio survives.
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Post by Marty on Jan 10, 2006 16:37:58 GMT
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Post by Vercetti on Jan 16, 2006 5:47:11 GMT
I had to post one of the best images in cinema.
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Post by Michael on Jan 16, 2006 18:10:14 GMT
^ I agree. Simply mindblowing.
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Post by Mike Sullivan on Jan 16, 2006 19:00:43 GMT
Ahhh, yes. Truly amazing shot and proof of how important the work of Gregg Toland was on this project. And that shot in it's self seems to sum up "...Kane". He's a man who did great things and yet somehow really wasn't that great himself.
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Post by johndav on Jan 25, 2006 19:20:38 GMT
Citizen Kane 10/10 The Magnificent Ambersons 9/10 The Lady from Shanghai 8.5/10 Touch of Evil 8.5/10 Othello 8.25/10 Chimes at Midnight 8/10 F for Fake 6.5/10 Mr Arkadin 6/10 The Stranger 5/10 The Trial 5/10 The Immortal Story 4.5/10
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Post by Omar on Jan 30, 2006 1:28:27 GMT
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Post by Capo on Feb 17, 2006 21:41:07 GMT
Had I watched Ambersons knowing nothing about it, it would not have struck me as a Welles film at all. For somebody who wanted to, and is hailed as having perfected Cinema, it's more or less a story with pictures. Certainly worth watching, if only once; though that said, to be fair, I feel as if I've not given my fullest in watching it, as it is very rare for a narrative to confuse me. It wasn't until forty minutes in where I distinguished who was an Amberson and who wasn't.
What are others' thoughts on it?
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Post by mikola on Apr 30, 2006 15:50:23 GMT
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Post by Boz on Jul 25, 2006 10:38:40 GMT
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Post by bobbyreed on Feb 22, 2007 5:39:49 GMT
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Post by Capo on Feb 22, 2007 12:17:25 GMT
I don't know, Capo, I think you need to rewatch Ambersons. Its style doesn't grab one immediately like Citizen Kane; it's not as extravagant, but it is cinema. The editing and narration of the opening montage; the ball sequence with the tracking camera; the tracking camera when the aunt goes hysterical; the ridiculously deep deep-focus of some shots - all cinematic and daring. Kino, I've watched Magnificent Ambersons since I wrote that, earlier this month, and thought it was brilliant.
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Post by RNL on Apr 2, 2007 23:48:53 GMT
>>> nysun.com One of American cinema's lost masterpieces could finally reach theaters next year after a deal nears completion to edit and release Orson Welles's final, uncompleted film, "The Other Side of the Wind," according to the director and actor Peter Bogdanovich.
"The deal is 99.9% finished," Mr. Bogdanovich, a friend and biographer of Welles, said in an interview last month. Mr. Bogdanovich repeated his claims at an appearance at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando on Friday, according to a report on a Web site dedicated to Welles's work.
The unedited negatives of the film have sat in a Paris vault for more than 30 years, unseen by anyone other than Welles, who died in 1985.
Mr. Bogdanovich, who also acted in "The Other Side of the Wind," said negotiations with a "well-known cable network," which have lasted seven years, have ended with an agreement to complete the film. While Mr. Bogdanovich refused to name the channel, Showtime has long been associated with the project. A spokesman for Showtime said it was "still in negotiations" over the movie.
Welles spent at least five years during the 1970s working on "The Other Side of the Wind," which stars John Huston as an aging filmmaker directing what turns out to be his final movie. Huston's character dies in a car crash before he finishes his film, and Welles's story unfolds in flashback after the death of the central character, a device Welles previously employed in " Citizen Kane," considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.
Before he died, Welles claimed that the shooting of "The Other Side of the Wind" was almost complete, and the filmmaker is known to have edited between 40 minutes and 50 minutes of the work, excerpts of which have occasionally been screened at Welles retrospectives.
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