Discovering Orson Welles

By: Jonathan Rosenbaum

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Paperback | 2 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Of the dozens of books written about Orson Welles, most focus on the central enigma of Welles's career: why did someone so extravagantly talented neglect to finish so many projects? Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has long believed that to dwell on this aspect of the Welles canon is to overlook the wealth of information available by studying the unrealized works. Discovering Orson Welles collects Rosenbaum's writings to date on Welles--some thirty-five years of them--and makes an irrefutable case for the seriousness of his work, illuminating both Welles the artist and Welles the man. The book is also a chronicle of Rosenbaum's highly personal writer's journey and his efforts to arrive at the truth. The essays, interviews, and reviews are arranged chronologically and are accompanied by commentary that updates the scholarship. Highlights include Rosenbaum's 1972 interview with Welles about his first Hollywood project, Heart of Darkness; Rosenbaum's rebuttal to Pauline Kael's famous essay "Raising Kane"; detailed essays and comprehensive discussions of Welles's major unfinished work, including two unrealized projects, The Big Brass Ring and The Cradle Will Rock; and an account of Rosenbaum's work as consultant on the 1998 re-editing of Touch of Evil, based on a studio memo by Welles.

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"The intellectually insatiable Rosenbaum is just the person to dissect the myths and expose the inaccuracies that have grown to define the Welles legend. [It] has both breadth and depth." American Cinematographer

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to "Raising Kane"	p. 16
The Voice and the Eye: A Commentary on the Heart of Darkness Script	p. 28
Notes on a Conversation with Welles	p. 49
First Impressions of F for Fake	p. 51
The Butterfly and the Whale: Orson Welles's F for Fake	p. 54
Prime Cut (The 107-Minute Touch of Evil)	p. 59
Andre Bazin and the Politics of Sound in touch of Evil	p. 62
The Invisible Orson Welles: A First Inventory	p. 67
Reviews of Biographies by Barbara Leaming and Charles Higham and a Critical Edition of Touch of Evil	p. 90
Afterword to The Big Brass Ring, a Screenplay by Orson Welles (with Oja Kodar)	p. 99
Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan (New York University Welles Conference)	p. 115
Reviews of Citizen Welles and a Critical Edition of Chimes at Midnight	p. 120
Review of Orson Wells: A Bio-Bibliography	p. 126
Orson Welles's Essay Films and Documentary Fictions: A Two-Part Speculation	p. 129
The Seven Arkadins	p. 146
Othello Goes Hollywood	p. 163
Truth and Consequence: On It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles	p. 175
Afterword to the Cradle Will Rock, an Original Screenplay by Orson Welles	p. 188
Orson Welles in the U.S.: An Exchange with Bill Krohn	p. 201
The Battle over Orson Welles	p. 236
Touch of Evil Retouched	p. 248
Excerpt from "Problems of Access: On the Trail of Some Festival Films and Filmmakers" (On Touch of Evil)	p. 258
Welles in the Lime Light: The Third Man	p. 261
Orson Welles as Ideological Challenge	p. 269
Orson Welles's Purloined Letter: F for Fake	p. 289
When Will-and How Can-We Finish Orson Welles's Don Quixote?	p. 296
The Present State of the Welles Film Legacy	p. 309
Index	p. 323
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