Unknown Orson Welles movie discovered

[Lauffray]

Anybody else excited about this ?
http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/aug/08/orson-welles-film-discovered-too-much-johnson

 

[KoNickon]

That's very cool. I had never heard of this play or film. The blog post refers to a "film wheeze" -- ?

 

[Lauffray]

The blog post refers to a "film wheeze" -- ?

no clue what that is

 

[summaron]

Great news, also to get an idea of what the Mercury Players were up to then.

There's also a new book of interviews just published called "My Lunches with Orson".

Even washed up and so heavy and arthritic he had to use a wheelchair, the 68-year-old Welles knew he was more interesting than anyone else in Hollywood. So he asked his pal Henry Jaglom, an indie filmmaker, to tape their lunch conversations at Ma Maison — with his ill-tempered toy poodle Kiki at the table — discussions that indolently roamed from chicken salad capers to chic romantic capers. The tapes span 1983 to 1985 ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/books/review/my-lunches-with-orson-and-ava-gardner-the-secret-conversations.html?pagewanted=all