Nov 8, 2017
The Director's Club finish our epic look at
epic auteur Orson Welles, who managed to continue creating some
amazing film moments despite becoming mostly exiled from the
Hollywood studio system. In Part II we look from his takes on
Shakespeare with "Othello" and "Chimes At Midnight", through his acidic noir "Touch of
Evil", to his 'deconstructumentary' film "F for Fake", and along
the way talk about his many unfinished films (one of which may see
the light of day yet). His work proved so inspiring we not
only looked to compare them to the efforts of Jacques Tati and
Alfred Hitchcock, but had to invent words to describe some
characters and even hairstyles in his movies! Hope we were
able to bring across the brazenly enthusiastic creativity to be
found in Orson Welles' films!
0:00 Intro
("Independence Day", Bruce Springsteen)
2:23 "Othello" / The 'controversy' about
"The Third Man" ("Jealousy", Queen)
26:14 "Mr. Arkadin /
Confidential Report" ("Hope for the Best, Expect the Worst", Mel
Brooks)
41:52 "Touch of Evil" ("Framed", The Coasters)
1:04:47
"The Trial" ("Trapped", Jimmy Cliff)
1:23:38
"Chimes at Midnight /
Falstaff" ("Led Astray", Friction)
1:55:44 "The
Immortal Story" / Welles' ongoing film projects ("Flesh for
Fantasy", Billy Idol)
2:05:57 "F
for Fake" ("Lies", The Knickerbockers)
2:20:20 "Filming Othello" / "The Other
Side of the Wind"