Archive for tag: Gary Graver

“Let’s give them something to really work with” – Rick Schmidlin on revising “Touch of Evil”

6 October, 2008 (20:54) | Interviews, Orson Welles, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

My research into the unprecendented work done on Touch of Evil in 1998 began here, with a lengthy phone interview with Rick Schmidlin in August of 1998, a month before I’d even had a chance to see the new cut. The man who proposed the radical idea of creating a new version of the film [...]

Cinematic Archeology on DVD – “Orson Welles’ Don Quixote”? Not Even Close

18 August, 2008 (17:57) | DVD, Film Reviews, Orson Welles, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

Don Quixote is one “lost” Welles film that is surely doomed to remain that way: unfinished, fragmented, a puzzle with pieces that have been recut so many times they simply don’t fit together. Welles jokingly renamed the film “When Are You Going to Finish Don Quixote?” because he continued to rewrite and reconceptualize the film [...]