The Deep wasn't completed: the star died about halfway through filming, and as I've heard it what was filmed was considered "tv-movie of the week" quality
your right( 1 year ago by BarryARowen)
your right
That was a real ...( 1 year ago by Arthur5041975)
That was a real treat. Thanks matt!
Thank you for this ...( 1 year ago by rkeane2500)
Thank you for this one - one of the best director interviews I've seen.
This has been a ...( 1 year ago by nobbynemo)
This has been a pleasure to watch this again, a real gem.
Thanks Matt.
good solid BBC ...( 1 year ago by petesot62)
good solid BBC documentary on a great filmmaker, thanks for posting. but if anyone is interested in a mightily perceptive and fascinating analysis of welles' life and work, read david thomson's "rosebud: the story of orson welles".
I read that one ...( 1 year ago by matt7333)
I read that one years ago and didn't think it as solid work as Simon Callow's Road to Xanadu (though it was not the full story I admit). I also greatly enjoyed Barbera Leamings book which was the last one written while Welles was still alive and which he made a contribution. Seek that one out also if you can.
Thank you very much ...( 1 year ago by guely55)
Thank you very much for this 16 part program on the Great Orson. And since you guys are sugesting books let me name This Is Orson Welles by Peter Bogdanovich. A book almost as good as Hitchcock by Truffaut which is, in my opinion, the best book written on cinema.
David Thomson's " ...( 11 months ago by bearbryant84)
David Thomson's "Rosebud" is just about the last thing anyone should read in hopes of getting a clear, or even slightly accurate picture of what Welles himself was like, or, worse, how biographies should be written. What a shabby thing indeed. Far worse and yet similarly as myth-perpetuating as Donald Spoto's bio of Hitchcock, "The Dark Side of Genius." Leaming's biography is fairly trashy in my opinion, hoping to sell with sexual escapades the way Thomson sold with "fatal flawisms".
Thomson is a hack ...( 11 months ago by Gorboduc)
Thomson is a hack and I wouldn't read a word he wrote about anything. I think Naremore's book is the best thing on Welles after the Bogdanovitch interviews.
Many thanks to Matt7333 for posting this. I'm glad to see it give equal weight to his European work, which is my favorite of his periods; most American critics still can't see past Kane and Touch of Evil.
Many thanks for ...( 11 months ago by ummaohz)
Many thanks for this. That was well worth watching and it's what i've spent my evening doing. Really interesting man. Thanks again!
Thanks Champ that ...( 10 months ago by vanzetti7)
Thanks Champ that was breathtaking, been wondering where all those clips came from in Battle of Citizen Kane. Hope this surface somewhere in the DVD world sometime. It's great:-) Does anyone know where you CAN actually get this doco???
Thanks. A great ...( 9 months ago by bubbafatz)
Thanks. A great documentary on the most engaging of artists. Very inspiring.
Welles is the ...( 8 months ago by BlindEyeJones)
Welles is the quintessential romantic -- to good for the world yet not good enough -- and the notion of innocence reoccurs but perhaps Welles is longing for ignorance which he claimed to posses when he was young, which guided or guarded his actions. And yet that can't be true for he does want knowledge -- the artist is about self discovery -- or at least the ability to create and control the impression of it.
just a quick point ...( 7 months ago by armadillo01)
just a quick point of trivia, the score in the end title sequence is Brian Eno, from Another Green World.
The greatest ...( 7 months ago by orsonfreud)
The greatest American Director. Welles was a true visionary who is still ahead of his time. We can only hope that the masses can belatedly recognize the treasues he has given us.
Thank you for ...( 6 months ago by shanerie)
Thank you for posting!
Great seeing this ...( 4 months ago by goetz2001)
Great seeing this again. Are there any plans to release it?
the tragic history ...( 3 months ago by theSuperMetroid)
the tragic history of a great American genius.
Happy birthday, ...( 2 months ago by Dundas1991)
Happy birthday, Orson!
"American genius." ...( 1 month ago by Jazalicious)
"American genius." Just say "genius".
My next picture ...( 4 days ago by procommenter)
My next picture will be entitled "Orson Welles: When were his 'salad days'?"
Thanks Matt.
Many thanks to Matt7333 for posting this. I'm glad to see it give equal weight to his European work, which is my favorite of his periods; most American critics still can't see past Kane and Touch of Evil.