This Is Orson Welles
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 030680834X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Barbie-doll sized font makes a wonderful book unreadable. R. Harris A wonderful book on Welles! My only complaint is that the print is much too small! You almost need a magnifying glass to read it. There's great stuff here, but the publisher should have put a crowbar in their wallet for more pages so it could be published in a larger font. Reading while holding a magnifying glass kills much of the enjoyment of the experience.. robert j. baker said Valuable mainly to show Welles reasoning behind his films,. Valuable mainly to show Welles reasoning behind his films, I was especially interested in his remarks on Touch of Evil; his comments on cutting, camera angles, etc are pertinent and thoughtful. His claim it was an anti-Fascist film is consonant with his ex post facto comments on much that he did and not justified by the material. He claims the studio cut out his black comic bits in Touch of Evil . "Awful format and photos" according to popeAwful format and photos pope47 The content is splendid, wonderful insight into the great Welles. However, as others have stated, the blurry photographs appear to have been printed on gauze, and the small physical size of the book is unwieldya thick book in a pocketbook format. Had I known this I would have never purchased.. 7. The content is splendid, wonderful insight into the great Welles. However, as others have stated, the blurry photographs appear to have been printed on gauze, and the small physical size of the book is unwieldya thick book in a pocketbook format. Had I known this I would have never purchased.
This Is Orson Welles, a collection of penetrating and witty conversations between Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, includes insights into Welles's radio, theater, film, and television work; Hollywood producers, directors, and stars; and almost everything else, from acting to magic, literature to comic strips, bullfighters to gangsters. Now including Welles's revealing memo to Universal about his artistic intentions for Touch of Evil, (of which the "director's edition" was released in Fall 1998) this book, which Welles ultimately considered his autobiography, is a masterpiece as unique and engaging as the best of his works.. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to
This 1998 reissue of the volume contains a fond new introduction by Bogdanovich and another crucial piece of Welles minutia, excerpts from his 58-page memo to Universal Pictures about the editing of Touch of Evil. In 1992, the first publication of This Is Orson Welles brought a priceless document to light. In the late '60s and early '70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances--including the director's decision to compose an autobiography that he never got around to writing--kept the interviews out of the public eye. --Raphael Shargel. His defense of his controversial adaptation of Kafka's The Trial is so fascinati