anyone know anything about a lenghty orson welles interview from the eighties?

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in an orson welles thread over on ILE there is mention of a long orson welles interview he did for the BBC shortly before he died,does anyone know where i could my hands on this?
the guy who mentioned it said he got it from someone who posted here a lot
the original thread is here
Orson Welles

― robin (robin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

ps here's a great welles interview on parkinson in the seventies

http://www.dailymotion.com/Tomsutpen/video/xhap0_orson-welles-interview-1974

― robin (robin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Assuming this is the clip from 1982's The Orson Welles Story, there's a transcript in Orson Welles: Interviews.

― andrew s (andrew s), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

cheers,i'll have a look for that
i'd love to actually see the video anyway though,its the voice and so on that make his interviews so compelling

― robin (robin), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

I think I'm the guy you refer to who posted a lot. I've recently transferred the tape to DVD, so if you want a copy...

― Billy Dods, Monday, 21 May 2007 10:32 (eighteen years ago)

i'd love a copy billy,how do i get in touch with you?

― robin l, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

i'd love to get a copy of this as well!

― J.D., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

Drop me a line to my email address (butterbubble9 at hotmail.com) and I'll try to get it sorted.

It's fantastic stuff, he really is the consummate raconteur. Much more funny than you'd expect and a wonderful lack of bitterness about the movie business. Poignant too as he talks about future projects, which of course came to nought.

― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

"Show me a way to read this...and I'll go down on you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAGVCc9Wbrc

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 1 July 2012 02:39 (thirteen years ago)

fantastic!

― chupacabra seeds (Abbbottt), Sunday, 1 July 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)

At least parts of this were reshown on BBC4 recently. I'm not sure if it was the whole thing. But there has been a season of reshowings of compiled interviews from the vaults. I think largely from a show originally shown a few years back but there may have been complete interviews shown along with them.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 July 2012 09:49 (thirteen years ago)

Alternatively, either last xmas or the one before there was an Orson Welles season put on where they reshowed his 10 minute shorts and showed several documentaries and his more leftfield films. might have been part of that too.

But I guess anything as good as that has probably been in circulation on places like Demonoid and other more tv specific torrent sites for the last few years, which it may not have been at the time of initial posting.

― Stevolende, Sunday, 1 July 2012 09:53 (thirteen years ago)

ten months pass...

The entire documentary (2hrs 45 mins!) is on Youtube: Arena - The Orson Welles Story

― fit and working again, Monday, 20 May 2013 17:28 (twelve years ago)

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