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Peter Bogdanovich to receive Maverick Lifetime Achievement Award at Woodstock, NY, film festival 23 Aug 2013 | 07:18 am
Director-actor-film historian Peter Bogdanovich will receive the Maverick Lifetime Achievement Award at the 14th annual Woodstock (New York) Film Festival on October 5. Bogdanovich, 74, was a longtime...
Photos: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ storyboards and stills 22 Aug 2013 | 10:11 pm
One of Wellesnet's French readers, Jean-Marc Philippe, has been kind enough to share with us some incredibly rare storyboards and stills from Orson Welles' still unreleased "The Other Side of the Wind...
‘Too Much Johnson’ – Fanfare 75 years after its failure 17 Aug 2013 | 07:51 am
"Too Much Johnson" was a failure for the Mercury Theatre when it closed after a tryout at Connecticut's Stony Creek Theatre in August 1938. Orson Welles had planned to run 40 minutes of silent film to...
‘Touch of Evil’ actor Valentin de Vargas dead at 78 15 Aug 2013 | 04:49 pm
Valentin de Vargas, who menaced Janet Leigh as Pancho in Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil," has died at the age of 78. De Vargas died June 10 of myelodysplastic syndrome in Tulsa, Okla. He was laid to res...
Young Orson Welles’ time in Madison, Wisconsin recalled 15 Aug 2013 | 06:58 am
The Daily Page of Madison, Wisconsin, has taken a look back at the time a 10-year-old Orson Welles spent there in 1925. Using comments offered by a childhood acquaintance of Welles to the Madison Lite...
Orson Welles on his childhood: ‘My Father Wore Black Spats’ and ‘A Brief Career as a Musical Prodigy’ 11 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
Editor's note: With the interest in the Orson Welles' celebrations planned in Woodstock, Illinois, in 2014 and 2015, as well as the recent publication of "Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in ...
Orson Welles’ lost ‘Too Much Johnson’ footage discovered in Italy 9 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
Orson Welles’ long-lost 1938 film footage for the stage play “Too Much Johnson” has been discovered in an Italian warehouse and has now been restored, according to Variety. The only known print was th...
Paul Masson ad executive remembers his own lunches with Orson Welles 2 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
Advertising executive John Annarino recalled his own lunchtime chats with Orson Welles in an article for The Desert Sun. Annarino was creative director for DDB Needham, one of the top advertising agen...
Todd Tarbox reflects on Orson Welles in Woodstock, Todd School for Boys 29 Jul 2013 | 08:37 pm
Todd Tarbox, author of "Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts," (available through amazon.com) spoke at Read Between The Lynes in Woodstock, Illinois, on Saturday, July 27. He has be...
Orson Welles’ ‘The Stranger’ to get Blu-ray release from Kino Classics 26 Jul 2013 | 04:13 pm
"The Stranger," Orson Welles' 1946 thriller about a Nazi war criminal hiding out in a sleepy Connecticut town, will get a proper Blu-ray release this fall. Kino Classics is promising a brand new 1080p...
