This Is Orson Welles by Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Book Reviews of This Is Orson Welles
Book Review: A must read for any Welles fan!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book. Before you begin, you might want to find video stores that carry his films, because you will end up renting a lot of Welles while reading this.I loved the chronological history of Welles. My father worked with him in radio and I was happily to see my Dad's name with a project that Welles worked on for CBS radio!
Book Review: Words 10, Pictures 3
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this book very much. It's a good read, informative and entertaining. Fans of Welles will feel that they are sitting in on a conversation between him and Bogdanovich (who asks insightful and pertinent questions, not noticeably obseqious), and that's lots of fun. You learn things about movies and about Welles, and even his evasive responses are interesting.
What nobody has mentioned so far is the photographs. There seems to have been some problem with the printing, and they look, in my copy at least, like 12th-generation photocopies: washed-out, grainy and almost indecipherable. Too bad, because there are a lot of them, some of them historic, and they are just really hard to look at. I don't understand it.
Book Review: Fascinating for the casual and serious buffs
Summary: 4 Stars
I received this book as a gift recently, and I got a lot out of it, despite the fact that I am not a Kane-ologist. Welles is revealed as a man who cared about his craft, and it details the inside story of many of his films, including the bastardization of the Magnificent Ambersons. As a director, Bogdanovich speaks the language, and does well to coax the reticent Welles to open up about various moments in his checkered career. Again, the serious film buffs get the most out of this book, but as a more than casual movie watcher I have read and re-read this book as I've discovered more of Orson's work.Book Review: Great Read; Terrible Printing
Summary: 3 Stars
I've just started going down the Welles "rabbit hole". I was very eager to receive this book, but was very disappointed in the quality of the printing.
It looked as if it had been printed with an old dot matrix printer that was running out of ink. The text is pixellated and soft, and as mentioned in other reviews, the pictures are nearly incomprehensible.
Book Review: Welles considers this book his definitive biograpy.
Summary: 2 Stars
We are told on the back cover that Welles considers this his difintive biography and the way in which he would want to be remembered. This is a sad statement, when you consider that there is no mention by Welles of either of his daughters, Christopher and Rebecca. One has to refer to the chronology at the back of the book to find that these people actually existed. It seems that Welles treated them in the same way as everything he cared about, he left. Admiration for Hitchcock, he finished his films.