Naturally, Huston was furious about the film’s suppression and remained so all through the intervening years. In his words, “I think it boils down to the fact that they wanted[…]
Author: Joseph McBride
Joseph McBride is a film historian and a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He has published twenty books, including his 2017 collection, Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies (Hightower Press, Berkeley). His other books include acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford; three books on Orson Welles; Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit; and The Broken Places: A Memoir. His website for How Did Lubitsch Do It? is
howdidlubitschdoit.com. McBride spent six years (1970-76) playing a film critic and historian in Welles’s forthcoming film The Other Side of the Wind. More
Too Much Johnson: Recovering Orson Welles’s Dream of Early Cinema
Orson Welles’s Too Much Johnson is a youthful tribute to low comedy and reflects of his obsession with bygone times, cultural mores & means of expression.
Interviews · Writers & Critics
Political Filmmaking and America’s “Poisoned Chalice”: The Banned Gore Vidal Interview
“He fears the ‘Party of God’ because he reads their ‘cultural elite’ and ‘family values’ rhetoric as ‘code for [attacking] the media, the Jews, the homosexuals, the adulterers, people who do not believe in God, people who are better looking than you are — put it all together, you have a poisoned chalice.'”
Book review: In My Father’s Shadow, by Chris Welles Feder
In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles, by Chris Welles Feder. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2009. Hardcover. $24.95. 304pp. ISBN 978-1565125995. Orson Welles, as Walter Kerr wrote[…]
Book review: On Cukor, by Gavin Lambert
On Cukor, by Gavin Lambert, edited by Robert Trachtenberg. Rizzoli, 208 pp., $50.00. One day in the early 1980s, George Cukor, the octogenarian director of such celebrated Hollywood films as Dinner at[…]
