The Big Brass Ring
by Orson Welles, Oja Kodar
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With a foreword by James Pepper and an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Welles consciously conceived The Big Brass Ring as a companion piece to his masterpiece Citizen Kane. Here he is again concerned with the idea of the great man, and with what happens at the convergence of great talent, public ambition and the undertow of obscure, private longings rooted in the past. A film of The Big Brass Ring, its script heavily edited, appeared in 1999, with William Hurt in the lead role.
More than a footnote to a brilliant career; it is a playful, witty and moving tale of hollow ambition, lost love and loyal friendship…stands in its own right, either as a surprisingly readable cine-novella or, for Welles scholars, as a valuable insight into the filmmaker's personal and artistic preoccupations. - Time Out
The script in its present form, with its witty and extensive stage directions, gives a tremendous sense of what it might have been like in the company of the great raconteur himself. The whole script is sexier than almost anything else of his output too, and the authors have taken great care to let us "see" what the film might have been – enthralling, sexy, funny, and politically as trenchant as anything being made today. - Simon Callow
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- Publisher/Imprint Eyewear / Black Spring Press
- ISBN/Identifier 9780948238161 / 094823816X
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 9.95 GBP
- Pages160
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year1991
- Dimensions230x150 mm
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