Orson Welles knew all about fake news. His broadcast of The War of the Worlds on Halloween of 1938, a reading of a work of fiction, led to frenzied panic when America heard it on the radio. In The Eyes of Orson Welles, Mark Cousins gives us some real news - that Welles drew and painted for most of his life, starting before he began theater or film: “At nine, I started to paint – that’s what I loved the most, always. I’ve never been excited by movies as movies, as I’ve been excited by magic, or bullfighting, or painting.” Besides paintings, Cousins exhumes sketches, cartoons, scenes from his travels, even Christmas cards.
Any revisiting of Welles’s life – from triumphs to frustrations – yields insights. This spoken letter to Welles by Cousins is a discovery from one image to the next – the public is seeing most of them for the first time. It’s a timely story, not least because Welles’s homeland has a president who thinks he is Charles Foster Kane.
קבלו עדכונים על סרטים, אירועים, המלצות והטבות. לנרשמים תוענק הטבת הצטרפות!
