#Orson Wells

[shakespearenews]

In 1938, the FTP experienced a funding cut — and once again eight thousand people were out of work in an instant. Its stunning theatrical legacy wasn’t just relief service, but artistic achievement of the greatest heights. Especially memorable is the so-called Voodoo Macbeth of 1936, an all-black production in Harlem that moved the action from Scotland to the Caribbean. An electrically revivified classic in terms both political and artistic, the director was none other than Orson Wells, who would later call the production the “great success in my life.”

...Wells paid for his daring [re: "Cradle Will Rock"] with his job, he and Houseman were fired from the FTP the next day and went on to found the Mercury Theatre. Their first production there was a little-remembered “blackshirt” Julius Caesar, a full blown anti-fascist staging featuring Wells as Brutus and Blitzstein providing the music. Caesar, it will be remembered was the first Roman to declare himself  “dictator for life,” (Dictator perpetuo) triggering his assassination by Brutus and co. This staging coincided with Italy cosplaying a new Roman Empire, where all in that same year of 1937 this fascist state perpetrated: the “Yekatit 12” massacre of thousands of Ethiopians and the bombing of Guernica in Spain along with Nazi Germany.

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Sharon Tate in production stills for her last film “12+1″ (The Thirteen Chairs) in spring 1969.

In her search for a hidden fortune, Director Nicolas Gessner has her cutting open chairs with a buck knife instead of a utility knife, a disturbing detail considering....

[fdo7]

A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Fred Zinnemann

[leaving-no-shadow]

Citizen Kane, 1941 Orson Wells 

[meret118]

An interesting article about how the broadcast was made.

[dinnickhowellslikes]

[hollywoodpastandpresent]

Marlene Dietrich and Orson Wells 1944

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[weil-weil-lautre]

Orson Wells reading John Brown's speech at his sentencing.

[schibborasso]

Orson Welles performing WAR OF THE WORLDS, 1938

[honeyplath]

absolutely obsessed with orson wells words on john landis, he talks shit about everyone else and their movies but regarding him he straight up proposes murder. also the absolute guts of landis telling ORSON WELLS how to direct a movie

[brookeolin]

Wells died in 1985 and it looks like he’s on to something with the therapeutic film making and arrogance.

[drzito]

Esta semana, especial cine de los 70.

La carta del Kremlin (John Huston, 1970)

[vath-and-such-vinluv-s-stuff]

Mwah! They’re even better when you’re dead!

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Orson Hells

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