Comments on: Cinematic Archeology on DVD – “Orson Welles’ Don Quixote”? Not Even Close http://parallax-view.org/2008/08/18/cinematic-archeology-on-dvd-not-quite-orson-welles-don-quixote/ Smart Words About Cinema Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:32:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jarrod http://parallax-view.org/2008/08/18/cinematic-archeology-on-dvd-not-quite-orson-welles-don-quixote/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Jarrod Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:36:18 +0000 http://parallax-view.org/?p=105#comment-19 Great article. While I would love to see a completed Don Quixote--or The Other Side of the Wind--Welles left them as incomplete fragments which were not intended to be seen, and cinephiles should respect his intentions in spite of any well-intentioned curiosity. While I'd be among the first to argue that a film belongs to the world as much as (if not more than) to its creator, it should be exceedingly obvious that Welles' Quixote was never, in fact, given to the world in any way. Franco might as well have stolen the shoes off of Welles' corpse, resoled them, added a garish pink stripe, and sold them on Ebay. This release is grave robbery, pure and simple. Great article. While I would love to see a completed Don Quixote–or The Other Side of the Wind–Welles left them as incomplete fragments which were not intended to be seen, and cinephiles should respect his intentions in spite of any well-intentioned curiosity.

While I’d be among the first to argue that a film belongs to the world as much as (if not more than) to its creator, it should be exceedingly obvious that Welles’ Quixote was never, in fact, given to the world in any way. Franco might as well have stolen the shoes off of Welles’ corpse, resoled them, added a garish pink stripe, and sold them on Ebay. This release is grave robbery, pure and simple.

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