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Orson Welles in Italy

Author : Alberto Anile
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010411
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles in Italy written by Alberto Anile and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career anew. Far from being welcomed as the celebrity who directed and starred in Citizen Kane, his six-year exile in Italy was riddled with controversy, financial struggles, disastrous love affairs, and failed projects. Alberto Anile's book depicts the artist's life and work in Italy, including his reception by the Italian press, his contentious interactions with key political figures, and his artistic output, which culminated in the filming of Othello. Drawing on revelatory new material on the artist's personal and professional life abroad, Orson Welles in Italy also chronicles Italian cinema's transition from the social concerns of neorealism to the alienated characters in films such as Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, amid the cultural politics of postwar Europe and the beginnings of the cold war.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145953
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? written by Joseph McBride and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely considered the best film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. Frustrated by Hollywood and falling victim to the postwar blacklist, Welles departed for a long European exile. But he kept making films, functioning with the creative freedom of an independent filmmaker before that term became common and eventually preserving his independence by funding virtually all his own projects. Because he worked defiantly outside the system, Welles has often been maligned as an errant genius who squandered his early promise. Film critic Joseph McBride, who acted in Welles's legendary unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, provocatively challenges conventional wisdom about Welles's supposed creative decline. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet little-known later period. During the 1970s and '80s, Welles was breaking new aesthetic ground, experimenting as adventurously as he had throughout his career. McBride's friendship and collaboration with Welles and his interviews with those who knew and worked with the director make What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? a portrait of rare intimacy and insight. Reassessing Welles's final period in the context of his entire life and work, McBride's revealing portrait of this great film artist will change the terms of how Orson Welles is regarded.

Political Fellini

Author : Andrea Minuz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388206
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Political Fellini written by Andrea Minuz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813171512
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? written by Joseph McBride and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915–1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career challenges the conventional wisdom that Welles’s career after Kane was a long decline and that he spent his final years doing little but eating and making commercials while squandering his earlier promise. In this intimate and often surprising personal portrait, Joseph McBride shows instead how Welles never stopped directing radical, adventurous films and was always breaking new artistic ground as a filmmaker. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet little-known later period in the United States (1970–1985), when McBride knew and worked with him. McBride reports on Welles's daringly experimental film projects, including the legendary 1970–1976 unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind, Welles’s satire of Hollywood during the “Easy Rider era”; McBride gives a unique insider perspective on Welles from the viewpoint of a young film critic playing a spoof of himself in a cast headed by John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich. To put Welles’s widely misunderstood later years into context, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? reexamines the filmmaker’s entire life and career. McBride offers many fresh insights into the collapse of Welles’s Hollywood career in the 1940s, his subsequent political blacklisting, and his long period of European exile. An enlightening and entertaining look at Welles's brilliant and enigmatic career as a filmmaker, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? serves as a major reinterpretation of Welles’s life and work. McBride clears away the myths that have long obscured Welles’s later years and have caused him to be falsely regarded as a tragic failure. McBride’s revealing portrait of this great artist will change the terms of how Orson Welles is understood as a man, an actor, a political figure, and a filmmaker.

Despite the System

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569764220
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Despite the System written by Clinton Heylin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the facts rather than the myths behind Orson Welles's Hollywood career, this groundbreaking history fills in the gaps behind the drama of one of the most well-known American filmmakers.

Stories from the City of God

Author : Pier Paolo Pasolini
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519981
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Stories from the City of God written by Pier Paolo Pasolini and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a collection of the legendary filmmaker's short fiction and nonfiction from 1950 to 1966, in which we see the machinations of the creative mind in post-World War II Rome. In a portrait of the city at once poignant and intimate, we find artistic witness to the customs, dialect, squalor, and beauty of the ancient imperial capital that has succumbed to modern warfare, marginalization, and mass culture. The sketches portray the impoverished masses that Pasolini calls "the sub-proletariat," those who live under Third World conditions and for whom simple pleasures, such as a blue sweater in a storefront window, are completely out of reach. Pasolini's art develops throughout the works collected here, from his early lyricism to tragicomic outlines for screenplays, and finally to the maturation of his Neo-realism in eight chronicles on the shantytowns of Rome. The pieces in this collection were all published in Italian journals and newspapers, and then later edited by Walter Siti in the original Italian edition.

My Lunches with Orson

Author : Henry Jaglom
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805097252
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book My Lunches with Orson written by Henry Jaglom and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here is Welles as he has never been seen before: talking intimately, disclosing personal secrets, reflecting on the highs and lows of his astonishing career, the people he knew--FDR, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier, David Selznick, Rita Hayworth, and more--and the many disappointments of his last years"--Dust jacket flap.

Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698195531
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band written by Simon Callow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive four-volume survey of Orson Welles’s life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex, contradictory artists of the twentieth century, whose glorious triumphs (and occasional spectacular failures) in film, radio, theater, and television introduced a radical and original approach that opened up new directions in the arts. This volume begins with Welles’s self-exile from America, and his realization that he could function only to his own satisfaction as an independent film maker, a one-man band, in fact, which committed him to a perpetual cycle of money raising. By 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete; Mr. Arkadin, the most puzzling film in his output; and a masterpiece in another genre, Touch of Evil, which marked his one return to Hollywood, and like all too many of his films was wrested from his grasp and reedited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, of which his 1955 London Moby-Dick is considered by theater historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. His private life was as spectacularly complex and dramatic as his professional life. The book reveals what it was like to be around Welles, and, with an intricacy and precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, answering the riddle that has long fascinated film scholars and lovers alike: Whatever happened to Orson Welles?

Luck and Circumstance

Author : Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594688
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Luck and Circumstance written by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed director of such films as Brideshead Revisited shares the story of his youth and career, providing coverage of such topics as his childhood as the son of star Geraldine Fitzgerald, his relationships with Hollywood elite and the allegations that Orson Welles was his real father.

At the End of the Street in the Shadow

Author : Matthew Asprey Gear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book At the End of the Street in the Shadow written by Matthew Asprey Gear and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Welles's vision of cities by following recurring themes across his work, including urban transformation, race relations and fascism, the utopian promise of cosmopolitanism, and romantic nostalgia for archaic forms of urban culture.

The Magic World of Orson Welles

Author : James Naremore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097874
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Magic World of Orson Welles written by James Naremore and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prodigy. Iconoclast. Genius. Exile. Orson Welles remains one of the most discussed figures in cinematic history. In the centenary year of Welles's birth, James Naremore presents a revised third edition of this incomparable study, including a new section on the unfinished film The Other Side of the Wind . Naremore analyzes the political and psychological implications of the films, Welles's idiosyncratic style, and the biographical details--both playful and vexing--that impacted each work. Itself a historic film study, The Magic World of Orson Welles unlocks the soaring art and quixotic methods of a master.

Orson Welles

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099502836
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles written by Simon Callow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities. The book begins with Welles self-exile from America, and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film-maker, a one-man band; by 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete, Mr Arkadin, the biggest conundrum in his output, and his masterpiece Chimes at Midnight, as well as Touch of Evil, his sole return to Hollywood and, like all too many of his films, wrested from his grasp and re-edited. Along the way he made inroads into the fledgling medium of television and a number of stage plays, including Moby-Dick, considered by theatre historians to be one of the seminal productions of the century. Meanwhile, his private life was as dramatic as his professional life. The book shows what it was like to be around Welles, and, with a precision rarely attempted before, what it was like to be him, in which lies the answer to the old riddle: whatever happened to Orson Welles? "

Ex-centric Cinema

Author : Janet Harbord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1628922419
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Ex-centric Cinema written by Janet Harbord and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Demonstrates how Agamben's ideas can enrich and extend our understanding of film as a medium and the cinema as an apparatus, constantly being remade"--

Orson Welles's Last Movie

Author : Josh Karp
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250016088
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Orson Welles's Last Movie written by Josh Karp and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Josh Karp shines a spotlight on the making of The Other Side of the Wind—the final unfinished film from the auteur of Citizen Kane in Orson Welles’s Last Movie, the basis of Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville’s Netflix Original Documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead. In the summer of 1970, legendary but self-destructive director Orson Welles returned to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe and decided it was time to make a comeback movie. Coincidentally, it was the story of a legendary self-destructive director who returns to Hollywood from years of self-imposed exile in Europe. Welles swore it wasn’t autobiographical. The Other Side of the Wind was supposed to take place during a single day, and Welles planned to shoot it in eight weeks. It took six years during his lifetime—only to be finally completed more than thirty years after his death by The Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich, who narrates the film, and released by Netflix. Orson Welles’s Last Movie is a fast-paced, behind-the-scenes account of the bizarre, hilarious, and remarkable making of what has been called “the greatest home movie that no one has ever seen.” Funded by the shah of Iran’s brother-in-law, and based on a script that Welles rewrote every night for years, the film was a final attempt to one-up his own best work. It’s a production best encompassed by its star—the celebrated director of The Maltese Falcon, John Huston—who described the making of the film as “an adventure shared by desperate men that finally came to nothing.”

The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography

Author : David Worth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932907469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Citizen Kane Crash Course in Cinematography written by David Worth and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic textbook that provides a fictional account of how legendary filmmakers, Orson Welles and Gregg Toland, learned the art of cinematography.

Napoli/New York/Hollywood

Author : Giuliana Muscio
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823279391
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Napoli/New York/Hollywood written by Giuliana Muscio and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cinema history illuminates the role of southern Italian performance traditions on American movies from the silent era to contemporary film. In Napoli/New York/Hollywood, Italian cinema historian Giuliana Muscio investigates the significant influence of Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors on Hollywood cinema. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, Muscio demonstrates how these artists and workers preserved their cultural and performance traditions, which led to innovations in the mode of production and in the use of media technologies. In doing so, she sheds light on the work of generations of artists, as well as the cultural evolution of “Italian-ness” in America over the past century. Muscio examines the careers of Italian performers steeped in an Italian theatrical culture that embraced high and low, tragedy and comedy, music, dance, acrobatics, naturalism, and improvisation. Their previously unexplored story—that of the Italian diaspora’s influence on American cinema—is here meticulously reconstructed through rich primary sources, deep archival research, extensive film analysis, and an enlightening series of interviews with heirs to these traditions, including Francis Coppola and his sister Talia Shire, John Turturro, Nancy Savoca, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Joe Dante, and Annabella Sciorra.

Two Cheers for Hollywood

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946208194
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Two Cheers for Hollywood written by Joseph McBride and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Cheers for Hollywood is a rich, insightful, often amusing chronicle of McBride's decades of covering the American film industry and observing its decline from the challenging films of the 1960s to the juvenilia of today. This provocative collection brings together sixty-four pieces with commentaries on them, including a new monograph on the Coen Bros. and several other essays written for this book. Two Cheers for Hollywood demonstrates why McBride has helped set the standard for the field of film scholarship. As the late novelist Thomas Flanagan wrote in The New York Review of Books, McBride "deploys his wide knowledge of American social and film history with tact, wit, and imagination." McBride is a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He spent several years as a film critic, reporter, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood. His screenwriting credits include Rock 'n' Roll High School and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV.