Documentary - Prodigal Sons

Filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into an unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother. But along the way PRODIGAL SONS uncovers stunning revelations, including a blood relationship with Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, intense sibling rivalries and unforeseeable twists of plot and gender. Reed’s rare access delicately reveals not only the family’s most private moments, but also an epic scope as the film travels from Montana to Croatia, from jail cell to football field, from deaths to births. Kim Reed’s compassionate vérité style of filmmaking captures the lives of her family in such an organic way that their exceptional and challenging stories puncture the surface of our expectations. prodigalsonsfilm.com

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3 Notes. Permalink. Monday, February 15th, at 2:15 PM (∞).
Possible birthday present to myself. Orson Welles painted by another, contemporary, hero, Derren Brown. While I love the Bertrand Russell my current Orson fascination wins out.

Possible birthday present to myself. Orson Welles painted by another, contemporary, hero, Derren Brown. While I love the Bertrand Russell my current Orson fascination wins out.

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1 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, February 2nd, at 12:13 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.

Future Shock (1972) - Part 1 of 5 on Youtube. Based on the book by Alvin Toffler. Narrated by Orson Welles.

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1 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, January 31st, at 12:38 PM (∞).
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

1946 Radio Orson Welles - Affidavit of Isaac Woodward

Following on from his newspaper column in the New York Post, Orson Welles offered a weekly political radio broadcast, covering such topics as the OPA (Office of Price Administration,) atomic bomb tests, and the blinding of war veteran Isaac Woodard.

-Orson Welles Commentaries at the Internet Archive via Boingboing

This public diary is becoming little more than a place to appreciate Orson Welles.

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Notes. Permalink. Thursday, January 14th, at 3:09 PM (∞).

The strangely simultaneous death of Orson Welles and birth of Betacam

jstn:

A couple of weeks after Orson’s death, his cinematographer, the late Gary Graver, came by my office for a visit. Gary said something I will never forget. “I’ve been driving around for two weeks with Orson’s ashes in the truck of my car.”

Recommended.

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Found via jstn. 5 Notes. Permalink. Thursday, January 7th, at 9:55 AM (∞).

Orson Welles transforms himself into Falstaff - September 26, 1968 Dean Martin Show

Continuing coverage of Orson Welles, nods to Crowth’s Chimes at Midnight.

Love Jack Falstaff

But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,
were to say more than I know. That he is old, the
more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but
that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,
that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,
God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a
sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if
to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine
are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,
banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,
valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,
being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him
thy Harry’s company, banish not him thy Harry’s
company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

Tagged: #criticism #orsonwelles

5 Notes. Permalink. Monday, January 4th, at 12:45 PM (∞).
crowth:

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crowth:

(via)

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Found via crowth. 9 Notes. Permalink. Monday, January 4th, at 12:05 PM (∞). Available in higher resolution.
But I’ll…..

But I’ll…..

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1 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, January 3rd, at 10:34 AM (∞). Available in higher resolution.
Orson Welles’ - F for Fake

I could go on posting screenshots for this movie ALL day. So good.

Orson Welles’ - F for Fake

I could go on posting screenshots for this movie ALL day. So good.

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1 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, January 3rd, at 10:33 AM (∞). Available in higher resolution.

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