Episode 217: The Other Side of the Wind

Special Guests: Josh Karp & Joseph McBride
Guest Co-Host: Andrew Rausch

We’re kicking off “Maudit May” with a discussion of Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind. A film some fifty years in the making, it has yet to be completed and released.

The film stars John Huston as Jake Hannaford, an aging film director who is working on an artsy fartsy film to try to stay relevant with New Hollywood. Most of the film takes place on Hannaford’s seventieth birthday where he’s surrounded by sycophants, critics, friends and former friends. Populated by a star-studded cast, the film is a treatise on filmmaking, aging, and machismo.

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Links:
Support Other Side of the Wind on IndieGoGo
Buy Orson Welles's Last Movie by Josh Karp
Buy What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? by Joseph McBride
Buy Making Movies with Orson Welles by Gary Graver (with Andrew Rausch)
Read more about Other Side of the Wind at WellesNet
Buy the Other Side of the Wind script (in English and French)
Read more about Kael Vs. Kane
Buy Andrew Rausch's books
Hear more of Andrew Rausch on the show
Listen to our Saint Jack episode
Listen to our Magnificent Ambersons episode
Listen to our Othello episode
Read about the Netflix Acquisition
Hear Peter Jason's memories of working with Orson Welles on our They Live episode

Music:
"Cast Your Fate to the Wind" - Vince Guaraldi Trio

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Episode 185: Othello

Special Guest: Samantha White
Guest Co-Host: Joseph McBride

We conclude Shakespeare September with our look at Orson Welles's Othello. Filmed over a period of four years, the production was plagued with financial problems but ultimately proved a triumph of ingenuity over resources. The second of Welles's Shakespeare films, Othello is yet another of his works that has been tampered with.

We're joined by Welles scholar Joseph McBride of our Magnificent Ambersons and Executive Action episodes and we talk to Samantha White of the Shakespeare in Detroit company.

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Links:
Buy Othello on (all-region) DVD
Buy Making Movies with Orson Welles by Gary Graver & Andrew Rausch
Buy the soundtrack by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Watch Filming Othello at Archive.org
Buy Whatever Happened to Orson Welles by Joseph McBride
Buy Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Rosenbaum's This Is Orson Welles
Read Jonathan Rosenbaum's review of the Othello "restoration"
Find out more about Shakespeare in Detroit
Like Shakespeare in Detroit on Facebook.
Keep up with news on Welles's Othello at Wellesnet

Music:
"Othello" - Verdi
"Breaking Us In Two" - Joe Jackson

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Episode 143: The Magnificent Ambersons

Special Guests: William Friedkin, Joseph McBride, Christopher Welles Feder, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum

An episode two years in the making...

Orson Welles's follow-up to Citizen Kane adapted Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer prize-winning novel about industrial progress and the loss of innocence set against a tumultuous family, the Ambersons.

Welles infamously lost control of The Magnificent Ambersons before its final release. We'll examine its production, its destruction, and attempts to restore what many consider Welles's forgotten masterpiece.

We're joined by guest co-host Roger L. Ryan.

And...there's a special appearance by Mondo Justin!

Links:
Buy The Magnificent Ambersons on Blu-Ray
Visit a comprehensive Magnificent Ambersons website
Read Mike Thomas's The Decline & Fall of The Magnificent Ambersons
Read David Kamp's Magnificent Obsession
Buy Jonathan Rosenbaum's Discovering Orson Welles
Visit the Jonathan Rosenbaum website
Buy Joseph McBride's Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?
Buy Joseph McBride's Orson Welles
Visit the Joseph McBride website
Buy Peter Bogdanovich's This is Orson Welles
Buy Robert L. Carringer's The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction
Buy Chris Welles Feder's In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
Read ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’: The Fascinating Story of Orson Welles’ Studio-Tainted Masterpiece at Cinephilia and Beyond
Download The Magnificent Ambersons audio book
Learn more about the fan edit Orson Welles & I
Visit the WelleNet website
Visit Mondo Justin's Mondo Film Podcast
Special thanks to Peggy Daub of the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan

Music:
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo - Charles Coburn
The Union Forever - The White Stripes (Redd Blood Cells mix)

Sources:
Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
BBC Four - Arena, The Orson Welles Story
This is Orson Welles

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Episode 83: Saint Jack

Special Guest: Peter Bogdanovich

We're sailing off to Singapore this week with Saint Jack, a sorely overlooked film in Peter Bogdanovich's oeuvre starring Ben Gazarra as the titular character, an American trying to make a living as a pimp on the Lion Isle.

We're joined this week by Ben Slater, author of Kinda Hot, a book which documents the making of Saint Jack.

Links:
Get Saint Jack on DVD
Order Kinda Hot from Ben Slater
Visit Ben Slater's Sporeana site
Visit Ben Slater's Kinda Hot site
Read Paul Theroux's Saint Jack
Read a review of Saint Jack on Pulp Curry

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Music Used this Episode
"Corner Table" by Combustible Edison
"Singapore" by Tom Waits
"Goldfinger" by Shirley Bassey

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