Intended to be the pilot for a television series about ‘people and places’, Portrait of Gina is a journey to Italy, where Orson Welles discusses the Roman movie world with Vittorio De Sica and Rozzano Brazzi, and Italian customs with his wife, Paola Mori. “In fact, it’s not really a documentary at all, but an essay, a personal essay. It’s not trying to be factual, it’s simply n...
Sentinels of Silence provides an 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archeological sites of Mayan ruins across Mexico and Central America, including Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxmal. The film's narration details pre-Columbian Mayan culture, focusing on its achievements in mathematics and astronomy, and then questions how an...
"Filming ‘The Trial’ (1981) is a 90-minute Q&A at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Orson intended to do it like Filming ‘Othello’ (with scenes from The Trial and other interviews added later) but we never got around to it. The Munich Film Museum took all my reels and stitched them together to make a 90-minute movie – and it works! A lot of people were there...
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Documentaries about filmmakers are pretty dreary experiences in most cases, but this one is worth seeing even if you don't know Welles work well. It is all the more strange because the man behind this project is a troubled soul indeed, someone apparently without much talent himself. But it works because we have actors
It works because Welles' genius was in th...