Posted on March 19, 2012 in Off Topic | 2 Comments
Seventy one years after “Citizen Kane” premiered, Orson Welles’ thinly veiled character study of a mogul resembling William Randolph Hearst is finally getting a screening at the real life version of Xanadu. As part of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, the film will be showcased on a 5 story tall screen at Hearst Castle on March 9, 2012.
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Posted on October 10, 2011 in Interviews | 1 Comment
On October 10, 1985 Orson Welles reordered his last interview with Merv Griffin. He died two hours after the taping at the age of 70 years old.
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Posted on September 20, 2011 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
In these clips from the 1975 AFI Life Achievement Award show honoring Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Ingrid Bergman and others pay tribute to the legendary filmmaker.
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Posted on July 29, 2011 in Interviews | No Comments
This meeting between H.G. Wells and Orson Welles was broadcasted on Radio KTSA San Antonio on October 28, 1940, Wells expressed a lack of understanding of the apparent panic caused by “The War of the Worlds” Halloween radio broadcast in 1938.
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Posted on May 11, 2011 in Featured, Filmmaking 360, Interviews | No Comments
Here is a collection of filmmakers discussing what many believe is the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane. The interviews include everyone from Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, Charlton Heston, Martin Scorsese and more. We even threw in Donald Trump just for fun. We start with the man himself, Orson Welles.
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Posted on April 13, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments
The clip is from the unaired pilot of the Orson Welles Talk Show in 1979. Things take an unpleasant turn at the end of Orson Welles’ interview with Jim Henson and Frank Oz.
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Posted on February 4, 2011 in Outtakes | No Comments
Frozen Peas is the colloquial term for a blooper audio clip wherein American filmmaker Orson Welles performs narration for a series of British television advertisements for Findus. The clip is known informally as In July, or Yes, Always, based on several of Welles’ complaints during the recording.
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Posted on January 14, 2011 in Off Topic | No Comments
Future Shock is a 1972 short documentary film directed by Alex Grasshoff and narrated by Orson Welles. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn’t entered into the main competition. It is based on the book of the same name.
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Posted on September 23, 2010 in Interviews | 1 Comment
Steven Spielberg talks about Directors with distinct styles. He refers the work of Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese and Michael Curtiz.
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Posted on August 3, 2009 in Interviews | 2 Comments
B-movie producer and writer Harry Alan Towers sadly died this Sunday of heart failure in Toronto. He was 88.
He made more than 100 films working with such actors as Orson Welles, Michael York, Michael Caine, Richard Harris, James Earl Jones and Tony Curtis. He sometimes used the pseudonym Peter Welbeck.
Towers was one [...]
Posted on July 27, 2009 in Editing | No Comments
Spoken as only the great Orson Welles could spoken it:
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Posted on June 18, 2009 in Filmmaking 360 | 2 Comments
The opening scene from Orson Welles’ 1941 film “Citizen Kane”, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
Roger Ebert’s commentary on Citizen Kane is without a doubt the best DVD extra ever. Not only do you get the best film ever made, you get the best film school you’ll ever have for under $20. [...]
Posted on April 6, 2009 in Filmmaking 360 | 5 Comments
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. MIT has made available free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required.
Below we have posted videos from 2 of their courses “Philosophy of Film” [...]
Posted on November 17, 2008 in Cinematography | 1 Comment
by David Worth
Imagine being able to learn about something as complex as the Art of Cinematography in only half an hour or a weekend. Isn’t that what we all want today, in our new millennium, instant gratification world of the Internet, High Def, GoogleEarth and YouTube?
As we look back to the very origins, to the [...]
Posted on October 6, 2008 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
The Lost Films of Orson Welles. Also known as Orson Welles : The One-Man Band. A film featuring Ojar Kodar and the unrealized film projects of Orson Welles. Includes clips of “The other side of the wind.”
(All 9 parts embed in playlist)
