Unfinished Works
(Welles Rarities, Program Two)
1955-85, digital video, 125 min.
Among Welles' most legendary unfinished projects is the thriller The Deep, based on a novel by Charles Williams and filmed at the Dalmatian coast in Croatia, and meant by Welles to be a crossover film and more commercial venture. “My hope is that it won’t be an art-house movie. I hope it’s the kind of movie I enjoy seeing myself. I felt it was high time to show that we could make some money.” (Orson Welles). His last project was King Lear, a film that exists only as the revealing explanatory video designed to instruct his producer on the nuances of his proposed Shakespeare adaptation. In addition to important scenes and excerpts of The Deep, this program will also show some footage from The Other Side of The Wind, The Dreamers and Welles' dream project, Don Quixote.