Filming Othello
Filming Othello | |
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Micheal MacLiammoir Hilton Edwards | |
Cinematography | Gary Graver |
Edited by | Marty Roth |
Music by | Alberto Barberis Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
Distributed by | Hellwig Productions |
Release date | 1978 (Berlin Film Festival) |
Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | English |
Box office | 9.327 admissions (France)[1] |
Filming Othello is a 1978 English-language West German documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1951 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles, as well as the last one to be made during his lifetime.
Synopsis
Filming Othello begins with Welles standing behind a
Production
Filming Othello was made between 1974 and 1978. It was intended to be the first in a series of documentaries directed by Welles on the creation of his classic films. However, the second film in the proposed series, on the making of The Trial, was never completed.[3]
Filming Othello was shot in 16mm, with
The film includes a conversation with a Cambridge, Massachusetts audience after a screening of the film on 8 January 1977 at the 400-seat Cinema 1 inside the Orson Welles Cinema Complex. (Welles had starred in An Evening With Orson Welles the night before at Boston Symphony Hall.)[4]
Some of Welles' The Other Side of the Wind crew—Gary Graver, Michael Stringer and Larry Jackson—worked on Filming Othello.[4]
Filming Othello uses clips from Othello, but the footage is not accompanied by the film's dialogue track.[5]
Distribution
Filming Othello was first shown at the 1978
Filming Othello was released on home video for the first time on 10 October 2017 by The Criterion Collection. It was included in DVD and Blu-ray sets featuring newly restored 4K digital transfers of both the 1952 European and 1955 U.S. versions of Othello.[4]
See also
- Your Name Here – a 2015 Canadian docufiction film directed by B. P. Paquette featuring dozens of amateur actors and that examines the art and craft of movie acting, and the desire for movie stardom.
- Hello Cinema – a 1995 Iranian docufiction film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf that shows various everyday people being auditioned and explaining their reason for wanting to act in a film.
- Someone to Love - a 1987 pseudo-documentary directed by Henry Jaglom about a filmmaker who throws a Valentine's Day party at an old movie theater that is about to be demolished and then quizzes his guests on camera about their lives.
- F for Fake – the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film, which is loosely a documentary that operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.
References
- ^ Orson Welles box office information in France at Box Office Story
- ^ a b c "Filming Othello" by Lawrence French, Wellesnet.com
- ^ "Orson Welles: An Incomplete Education," Senses of Cinema Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c "'Filming Othello' added to Criterion's 'Othello' release – Wellesnet | Orson Welles Web Resource". Wellesnet | Orson Welles Web Resource. 17 July 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ "Filming Othello," Film Threat, 30 March 2003
- ^ "Welles in ‘Filming Othello,’" The New York Times, 4 February 1987
External links
- Filming Othello at IMDb
- Filming Othello is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive