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Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more...
As it was, Welles made a wonderful movie -- an eccentric adaptation that is in spirit as true to Shakespeare's text as, say, Verdi's Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the...
The film was brutalized too; in the U.S., at least, it was rarely shown. Then in 1989 Intermission Productions, at the request of Welles-Smith, launched a search for the film's original elements. They turned up in a New Jersey warehouse, and a restoration team set about polishing the...
Othello should be just the beginning of a true restoration. Welles made only 18 films, and at least five might-be masterpieces remain to be seen. It's All True, a three-part Technicolor film Welles shot in Brazil in 1942, ran afoul of censors and studio executives, and the...
CINEMA Welles' restored Moor prompts a call for more 91