Orson Welles: A Statement of Pur…Principles

I’ve almost gone through Welles’ body of work a couple of times before, but I was always held back by a couple of issues with his filmography.

The first question is one of authorship. Many of his completed films have multiple cuts. The most famous of them will be Touch of Evil, mostly because Walter Murch, operating off of Welles’ notes to the studio, was able to recreate a very close approximation for what Welles described as what he had intended for the film before the studio had taken ...