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Me and Orson Welles

  • 09-11-2009 1:32pm
    #1
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭


    Surprised this hasn't been mentioned here yet - a free screening of Me and Orson Welles is on at the Irish Film Institute tonight (Monday), but was offered via Twitter, not by email:
    Special free preview on Monday night - Orson Welles and Me starring Christian MacKay... 6pm, just email ifipreviews@gmail.com for tickets
    (Nothing about Members only there.)

    I don't know much about the film, which is still 4 weeks away from a UK/Ireland release, though I'm going anyway. It has Zac Efron (!) playing an teenage actor who gets cast in Orson Welles' 1937 production of Julius Caesar. Claire Danes, whom I always have time for, is in there too. Welles is played by Christian McKay, and based on the reviews and the trailer, the likeness is uncanny:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viC3Uy1zHB0

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #2
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,077 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I liked it - great period atmosphere, interesting story, and the romantic parts managed to avoid the usual clichés. Not really a Hollywood film at all, it was directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise/Sunset, School Of Rock) and was mostly shot on the Isle of Man. If Welles' Caesar was anything like as stunning as it was portrayed in the film, well, no wonder he became a legend.

    As a nice bonus, Christian McKay (Orson Welles) came to the screening and did an interview / Q&A afterwards. He had just come from the Gate Theatre, where Orson Welles bluffed his way in to a part as a teenager - much as Zac Efron's character did in the movie. A Very Nice Man. ;)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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