Books related to Orson Welles
  • FAKE! The Story of Elmyr De Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time (Orson Welles movie: "F for Fake") by Clifford Irving
    Description : FAKE! is an incredible tale of three rogues who swindled oil tycoons, movie stars, top art galleries and great museums, and almost caused the collapse of the international art world. It was the inspiration for filmmaker Orson Welles’ last major movie, “F For Fake,” now a cult class...more..
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  • Orson Welles by Joseph Mcbride
    Description : Orson Welles (1915–1985) revolutionized the art of filmmaking with his first feature, Citizen Kane, made when he was only twenty-five. This landmark study challenges the conventional wisdom that regards Welles's subsequent career as a long decline from that early peak, demonstrating th...more..
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  • Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
    Description : In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles’s prodigious childhood; his youth in New York, with its fraught partnership with Jo...more..
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  • Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans by Simon Callow
    Description : The first volume of Simon Callow's magisterial biography of Orson Welles was praised as a "splendidly entertaining, definitive work" by Entertainment Weekly. Now, this eagerly anticipated second volume examines the years following Citizen Kane up to the time of Macbeth, in ...more..
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  • Orson Welles: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) by
    Description : This book brings together an exceptional array of interviews, profiles, and press conferences tracing the half century that Orson Welles (1915- 1985) was in the public eye. Originally published or broadcast between 1938 and 1989 in worldwide locations, these pieces confirm that Welles's career w...more..
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  • Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts by Todd Tarbox
    Description : I found Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts fascinating, touching, and revealing of Orson and Roger. It certainly is the Orson I knew in all his complexity and brilliance. -PETER BOGDANOVICH, American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and author I read ...more..
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  • My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
    Description : Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America’s great cultural provocateurThere have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over ...more..
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  • Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts by
    Description : This volume is the only publication available of the fully annotated playscripts of Wells' W.P.A Federal Theatre Project and Mercury Theatre adaptations, including the "Voodoo" Macbeth, the modern-dress Julius Caesar and Welles' compilation of history plays, Five Kings....more..
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  • Orson Welles at Work by François Thomas
    Description : Welles is one of the legendary film directors whose persona has been created through a myriad of myths and legends. Enfant terrible of American cinema, his groundbreaking entry into Hollywood with "Citizen Kane" propelled him to fame as a young prodigy and unfailing genius. Many studies to date have...more..
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  • Orson Welles: A Biography by Barbara Leaming
    Description : "...[A] beautifully researched, valuable study of one of America's most influential and mysterious artists. ...[What] makes this book remarkable is Welles's own contribution. His comments, opinions, interviews cut in and out of the narrative with an almost cinematic force." -Patricia Bosworth...more..
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