I (Father Geek) was at the Alamo Drafthouse Cine tonight with Harry, his sister Dannie, Tom Joad, and several hundred others to say goodbye to Akira Kurosawa by viewing on the big screen 2 of his best films RASHOMON and THRONE OF BLOOD. The later was based on Macbeth and after viewing it my thoughts turned to Orsen Welles' great version of the same play.In fact Kurosawa was planning on doing his slant on the great Scot right after Rashomon, but put it off when he heard of Welles'project. Anyway I get home and find this bit in our mailbox from that little old German "Clock Fixer", hope you enjoy it.
Auchtun Geeks...
The sept. 19 edition of der San Diego union-tribune reports that progress is being made on several more Welles projects some of us have been waiting for for years. Rick Schmidlin, the man behind the current Touch of Evil restoration, is now involved in der effort to get Welles' unreleased "The Otherside of the Wind" completed. und efforts are on der way to fix the technically flawed (mainly it's sound) "Chimes at Midnight".
From the San Diego union tribune: <
"But as Welles predicted not long before he died, the industry would learn to love him once he was gone. Over the past few years, such Welles films as "Othello" and "F for Fake" have been re-released to great acclaim. Schmidlin is trying to get funding for an unfinished film, "The Other Side of the Wind," which starred Welles and John Huston, and efforts are being made to restore the Shakespearean production, "Chimes at Midnight."
Der Clock Fixer
