- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: HarperPerennial; Reprint edition (Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006092439X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060924393
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 167,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Orson Welles confounded his fans and his critics throughout his life. Arriving in Hollywood in 1939, he was proclaimed the "Wonder Boy" and by the age of 25 he had made arguably one of the greatest films of the century, "Citizen Kane". Flamboyant and visionary as a film and theatre director, radio producer and actor, writer, painter and magician, he spent his life working and yet he has been misunderstood as a "difficult, unorthodox" man who had achieved little from a promising start. Until he met Peter Bogdanovich - director of "The Last Picture Show", "Paper Moon" and "Mask", and himself a Hollywood maverick - Welles delighted in fuelling the myths that surrounded him and his work. In "This is Orson Welles", he comes clean, revealing in detail the intricacies of his work and, in his own words, "puts the record straight".
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ORSON WELLES: A couple of years before I went to Hollywood, Metro-Goldwyn-Myer had loaned a then unknown actress named Hedy Lamarr to Walter Wanger and he'd produced a picture with her and Charles Boyer called Algiers, a frame-for-frame remake of Pepe le Moko. Read the first page
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ORSON WELLES: A couple of years before I went to Hollywood, Metro-Goldwyn-Myer had loaned a then unknown actress named Hedy Lamarr to Walter Wanger and he'd produced a picture with her and Charles Boyer called Algiers, a frame-for-frame remake of Pepe le Moko. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
This is not an interview with Orson Welles by a brilliant director and cinephile. This is a book by Welles. As soon as Bogdanovich had the interviews typed he sent them to Welles, and he edited them. And since he was a genius of editing, he made his second Citizen Kane--or better his Citizen Welles. Only it isn't a movie, it's a book.
A wonderful book for anybody who likes cinema, radio, theatre--the media. And for all those who want to know the mind behind that masterpiece that is always in all the 10 Best Movies Ever lists: Citizen Kane. Which is not the only film discussed here: Welles tells it all, and even if it isn't all true, who cares? It's great anyway. What can you expect from the author of F for Fake?
It's like Welles himself: greater than life.
A wonderful book for anybody who likes cinema, radio, theatre--the media. And for all those who want to know the mind behind that masterpiece that is always in all the 10 Best Movies Ever lists: Citizen Kane. Which is not the only film discussed here: Welles tells it all, and even if it isn't all true, who cares? It's great anyway. What can you expect from the author of F for Fake?
It's like Welles himself: greater than life.
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as a present - even though it's was written in the 90's it's thought to be the best book on Orson Welles.
Unfortunately the book could do with being bigger - it's in paperback, the type is quite small and it's a bit unwieldy to read as there are so many pages. If you can get the original hardback (which is difficult as it's an American book and out of print now) it would be better.
Also, I had to order this twice as the first book arrived warped, as if it had been stored in a damp atmosphere. The second one was only slightly better but improved after I had weighted it down with something heavy!
Unfortunately the book could do with being bigger - it's in paperback, the type is quite small and it's a bit unwieldy to read as there are so many pages. If you can get the original hardback (which is difficult as it's an American book and out of print now) it would be better.
Also, I had to order this twice as the first book arrived warped, as if it had been stored in a damp atmosphere. The second one was only slightly better but improved after I had weighted it down with something heavy!
Format:Paperback
By reading this book you get to know the person!, and in the last chapters you can already tell in advance what Welles will answer to certain questions, say on the given subjects...so rich is the image this books gives the reader!
Reading this book is assisting to a conversation between friends...a very interesting experience, easy to follow,very amusing, and very serious...
Reading this book is assisting to a conversation between friends...a very interesting experience, easy to follow,very amusing, and very serious...
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