Peter Biskind

Henry Jaglom

Orson Welles

Based on long-lost recordings, a set of revealing conversations between the film historian author and the iconic cultural provocateur unstintingly reflects on topics ranging from politics and literature to the shortcomings of his friends and the many films Welles wanted to make. 50,000 first printing.

Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles

My Lunches with Orson

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Peter Bogdanovich

Conversations reveal Welles's feelings about films, theater, the radio and television industries, and various other directors and stars

This Is Orson Welles

Innovative film and theater director, radio producer, actor, writer, painter, narrator, and magician, Orson Welles (1915–1985) was the last true Renaissance man of the twentieth century. From such great radio works as "War of the Worlds" to his cinematic masterpieces Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Othello, Macbeth, Touch of Evil, and Chimes at Midnight, Welles was a master storyteller, as expansive as he was enigmatic. 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.

Herman Mankiewicz

Citizen Kane (Methuen Film)

Gathers essays, interviews, and reviews concerning the film and provides the complete continuity script.

Chimes at Midnight

Pauline Kael

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz

A companion to "Citizen Kane" - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.

The Complete Screenplay

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles will leave you agreeing with Marlene Dietrich, who also said (using Welles' words from Touch of Evil): "He was some kind of man. What does it matter what you say about people?"

The Secret Sordid Life of an International Tycoon

Mr. Arkadin: Aka Confidential Report

A masterpiece by one of greatest genious of the twentieth century Orson Welles.Classic novel that you must read.

Mr. Arkadin

A film by Orson Welles; (Modern film scripts)

The trial

An Original Screenplay by Orson Welles

The Big Brass Ring

Genre: Melodrama Characters: 12m, 2f An ingenious idea is employed to accommodate the sweep of this classic story on the stage. A Shakespearean company puts down their rehearsal sides of Lear and curiously take up those of a new play entitled Moby Dick. On the rehearsal stage of platforms, the teasers overhead suddenly become yardarms with sails and a tall ladder becomes a mast. The platforms become the decks of the ship on which the cast sails through the storms and tribulat

A Drama in Two Acts

Moby Dick--rehearsed

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles on Shakespeare

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.

Interviews

Raising Kane

The Citizen Kane Book

A Film by Orson Welles

The Trial

An Original Screenplay

The Cradle Will Rock

"This fascinating work will prove valuable for collections in film, theater history, and Shakespearean production. . . . The book includes fascinating production photos and helpful notes in which the original acts and scenes are identified, thus showing the extent to which Welles rearranged Shakespeare by shuffling acts and scenes, dropping characters, and by merging related narratives. . . . Recommended for all libraries." Choice This first publication of the annotated playscripts of Welles' adaptations of Shakespearean plays he produced in the 30s contains texts for "Voodoo" Macbeth (1936), the modern dress Julius Caesar (1937), and the Five Kings (1939). These adaptations were used at the W.P.A.'s Federal Theatre Project and the Mercury Theatre. A general introduction provides background information on the plays, their productions, the sociopolitical climate of the 30s, and Welles' synthesis of art and popular culture.

Graham Greene

Carol Reed

Joseph Cotten

El Tercer Hombre

Robert L. Carringer

Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. This new edition includes a revised preface and overview of criticism, an updated chronology of the film's reception history, a reconsideration of the locus of responsibility of Welles's ill-fated The Magnificent Ambersons, and new photographs.

Orson Welles

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