Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band
Simon Callow, "Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band"
English | ISBN: 0099502836 | 2016 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0099502836 | 2016 | 496 pages | AZW3 | 5 MB
In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another – theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet – in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities.
The book begins with Welles’ self-exile from America, and his realisation that he could only function happily as an independent film-maker, a one-man band; by 1964, he had filmed Othello, which took three years to complete, Mr Arkadin, the biggest conundrum in his output, and his masterpiece Chimes at Midnight
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