Forums cycles, retrospectives, exhibitions, symposia and cable passes in Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin and several others. Nobody who cares figure and legacy of Orson Welles (1915-1985) has happened that is the 100th anniversary of the birth of actor, writer and director who tomorrow, by Jean-Luc Godard, “we all owe him everything.” And so it is that in Europe and USA are being made commemorations of different species
However, there was something special planned for the “D-Day”. this May 6 was announced as a probable date for the premiere of The other side of the wind , the film mythical Wellesian shot between 1970 and 1976, and has followed an unusual path towards their completion. However, a source close to the project told The Third that while the purpose is brand new this year, there are still “several months” of work.
A non-specialists miss them the news and some, such as critical Jonathan Rosenbaum , remember that there is much unfinished in Welles and that’s not bad news. With respect to his colleague Joseph McBride, the subject has a particular flavor. Author of studies respected filmmaker, besides biographer John Ford and Steven Spielberg, the academic left, in her younger years, actor … The other side: the film, starring John Huston as a filmmaker who died in the night his 70th birthday, shown as a petulant critical.
“Having never acted, I let him guide me. Wrote together my lines, but then I had to follow his instructions to the letter, “says McBride today. “He was the greatest director of actors in film history and was fascinated to observe the care and sensitivity he handled a very diverse cast, making the best of everyone.”
Among the cliché of the total artist and genius who “was not up to scratch” from his talent, what is the most misunderstood of Welles aspect
I would say they are two: it was an extravagant spender and did little the last 15 years of his career, after returning to the US from Europe. Wasteful legend began his Latin American documentary It’s All True (1942), when the RKO studio fired him, arguing that he had spent the budget, when in fact it was US $ 447,453 under budget. Now, people who think that was not up to par in his last period, usually has not seen most of his films and have not even heard of the best made, he Chimes at Midnight (1966). Often, his films were attacked by commentators and battered by distributors. Welles filmed constantly between 1970 and the year of his death. Not only The other side of the wind and Filming Othello (1979), but also the Dreamers, The magic show and the sole Moby-Dick. The morning of his death planned shooting the sole inciar Julius Caesar.
What fault was in his early marginalization of Hollywood?
Who better what It was Jean Renoir said: Welles was an “aristocrat”. An aristocrat who worked on a massive and expensive medium. It was not politically-it was progressive-, but in an artistic sense, and that does not help much when you try to bring up a career in a popular medium. Still, he managed to make a substantial number of works, some of which are among the best films ever. It should not be defined as a “failed Hollywood director,” but as someone who used short and brightly system for their own purposes, before being expelled.
What Citizen Kane has stopped They are the “best film ever” in the survey 2012 Sight & amp; Sound, the lower the podium
In the long run surveys do not mean much and, for that matter, Kane? It is still in second place. I will always be “the film of the films,” as Truffaut called.
What was your idea of modern?
Welles was always ahead your time and we are still catching up with him. It was also classic, and this mixture is exhilarating. He loved the theater, vaudeville and silent comedy. It was an eclectic whose films broke conventions and broke down the barriers, stylistically and thematically. He was always trying new things with the film language. He adapted Shakespeare, but experimentally, vigorously using the medium of film instead of making mere filmed works, as is the custom.
Do you see something Wellesian in today’s cinema?
To some extent, all directors are inspired by Welles. But the current conditions of the studies are even less favorable for personal or for experimentation than they were in his time cinema: there is more money involved and the likes have been depleted dramatically. The good news is that with digital cinema, today anyone can make very cheap movies. They probably will not in theaters but can be distributed online and on DVD. If he were alive, Welles was doing several films a year.
Joseph McBride Cycle and conversation
Writer and film historian. He has published more than 15 books, including Orson Welles: Actor and director (1977) and What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? (2006)
From morning to Sunday 17, a series of Welles be held at the UC Cinema. On Thursday at 19:00 there will be a table with critics Pablo Marin, René Naranjo and Christian Ramirez.
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