Orson Welles Volume 2

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140275179

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Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow Pdf

“Unfailingly intelligent and well written . . . Vivid and three-dimensional.”—Variety The first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by Entertainment Weekly. Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years following Citizen Kane up to the time of Macbeth, in which Welles's Hollywood film career unraveled. In close and colorful detail, Callow offers a scrupulous analysis of the factors involved, revealing the immense and sometimes self-defeating complexities of Welles's temperament as well as some of the monstrous personalities with whom he had to contend.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Actors
ISBN : 1442099224

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Orson Welles by Simon Callow Pdf

Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446484555

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Orson Welles, Volume 2 by Simon Callow Pdf

The reason for the decline of Orson Welles's career is a hotly debated issue, but decline it certainly did. When Citizen Kane, his first film, opened in 1941, Welles was universally acclaimed as the most audacious filmmaker alive. But instead of marking the beginning of a triumphant career in Hollywood, the film still regularly voted the greatest ever made proved to be an exception in Welles's life and work. In 1947 Welles left America for Europe and lived for the best part of twenty years in self-imposed exile. Welles himself famously quipped 'I started at the top and worked my way down' - the second volume of Simon Callow's compelling biography tells the story of that complex and protracted descent from grace.

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473545762

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Orson Welles, Volume 3 by Simon Callow Pdf

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?

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037326215

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Orson Welles by Simon Callow Pdf

Traces Welles' portentous childhood; his youth in New York, where he worked with director John Houseman; his notorious radio career; and the making of "Citizen Kane."

Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0670024910

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Orson Welles by Simon Callow Pdf

Traces the life and career of the legendary director, discussing the making of "Citizen Kane," his contributions to such films as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "The Lady from Shanghai," and his efforts in radio comedy, spectacular theater, and newspaper politics.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520247383

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Discovering Orson Welles by Jonathan Rosenbaum Pdf

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Author : Simon Callow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0670872563

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Orson Welles by Simon Callow Pdf

The second volume of Callow's definitive biography of Orson Welles examines the years from Citizen Kane to Macbeth in which Welles's Hollywood film career came apart. Callow's scrupulous analysis reveals the immense and self-defeating complexities of Welles's temperament.

Author : Orson Welles
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578062098

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Orson Welles by Orson Welles Pdf

It is only in the editing studio that he possesses "absolute control." With scholarly erudition, Welles revels in the plays of Shakespeare and discusses their adaptation to stage and screen. He assesses rival directors and eminent actors, offers penetrating analyses of Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight, and The Third Man, and declares that he never made a film that lacked an ethical point-of-view. Book jacket.

Author : Chris Welles Feder
Publisher : Random House
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781845968670

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In My Father's Shadow by Chris Welles Feder Pdf

Of all the myriad stars and celebrities Hollywood has produced, only a handful have achieved the fame - and, some would say, infamy - of Orson Welles, the creator and star of what is arguably the greatest film ever, Citizen Kane. Many books have been written about him, detailing his achievements as an artist as well as his foibles as a human being. None of them, however, has come so close to the real man as Chris Welles Feder does in this beautifully realised portrait of her father. In My Father's Shadow is a classic story of a life lived in the public eye, told with affection and the wide-eyed wonder of a daughter who never stopped believing that some day she would truly know and understand her elusive and larger-than-life father. The result is a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure and an immensely entertaining story of growing up in the unreal reality of Hollywood.

Author : Joseph McBride,British Film Institute
Publisher : London : Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCSC:32106009292258

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Orson Welles by Joseph McBride,British Film Institute Pdf

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813171517

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What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by Joseph McBride Pdf

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.

Author : Josh Karp
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781250016089

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Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp Pdf

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.”

Author : Terry Comito
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 081351097X

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Touch of Evil by Terry Comito Pdf

This book about "Touch of Evil" includes the continuity script, a biography of Orson Welles, an interview with Welles by Andre Bazih, an interview with Charlton Heston, excerpts from several critical essays, major reviews, a filmography and a bibliography.

Author : James N. Gilmore,Sidney Gottlieb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253032966

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Orson Welles in Focus by James N. Gilmore,Sidney Gottlieb Pdf

Through his radio and film works, such as The War of the Worlds and Citizen Kane, Orson Welles became a household name in the United States. Yet Welles's multifaceted career went beyond these classic titles and included lesser-known but nonetheless important contributions to television, theater, newspaper columns, and political activism. Orson Welles in Focus: Texts and Contexts examines neglected areas of Welles's work, shedding light on aspects of his art that have been eclipsed by a narrow focus on his films. By positioning Welles's work during a critical period of his activity (the mid-1930s through the 1950s) in its larger cultural, political, aesthetic, and industrial contexts, the contributors to this volume examine how he participated in and helped to shape modern media. This exploration of Welles in his totality illuminates and expands our perception of his contributions that continue to resonate today.