What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (531 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813124107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. From Publishers Weekly With Welles, all roads lead to Citizen Kane, and it's there that many of his troubles began, McBride (Orson Welles; Steven Spielberg: A Biography, etc.) asserts in his lengthy examination of the famed filmmaker's career. Instead of fully exploiting the insider angle, McBride instead comes across as a name-dropper, constantly reminding the reader of his relationship with his subject. He left for Europe, later writing in Esquire that he "chose freedom." He produced only two movies during the eight years he spent abroad, but McBride asserts that his expatriate period resulted in tremendous growth as an independent filmmaker. McBride's passion for film (Welles's films, specifically) and his closeness with the director provide enough insider
McBride's revealing portrait of this great artist will change the terms of how Orson Welles is understood as a man, an actor, a political figure, and a filmmaker.. An enlightening and entertaining look at Welles's brilliant and enigmatic career as a filmmaker, What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? serves as a major reinterpretation of Welles's life and work. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. McBride offers many fresh insights into the collapse of Welles's Hollywood career in the 1940s, his subsequent political blacklisting, and his long period of European exile. McBride is the first author to provide a comprehensive examination of the films of Welles's artistically rich yet little-known later period in the United States (1970–1985), when McBride knew and worked with him. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent C
Essential Welles Reading Michael Dempsey Joseph McBride spent some 30 years being involved as an actor in Orson Welles' still-in-limbo movie, "The Other Side Of The Wind." Thus, he is in a unique position to deliver a thorough report on its sadly checkered history, and he more than delivers. He also puts paid to the trite, false notion that Welles spend his final years idling on trivia or diddling with commercials. This book provides a detailed explanation of just what he was doing in so many media and how explosively creative he remained.The reports on his woes as he tried repeatedly to raise completion funds for these many pro. very enlighting Kay I have been a fan of his for years and years. Of several books I've read about him I think this is the best. I haven't had time to finish it yet but I do like the way the author gives his reason for leaving America and filming in Europe is that Amercans/Hollywood were so surpressed at the time. Every discription of him so far has been very enlighting.. Fascinating and informative While I might be biased because a many parts of this book included stories about my father, Gary Graver, this is not something you want to miss out on if you have any interest in Orson Welles or the inner workings of the Hollywood movie industry. I knew Orson when I was a young boy and teenager during the time my father worked with him, but my memories are nothing compared to the vivid details and thoroughness of Joe's writings.This book taught me a lot about a man whom I admired and feared. He was rather scary from the perspective of a ten year old, but he often took time to have me sit