TCM backing search for lost Orson Welles movie in Brazil
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This 1942 lobby card for the Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons depicts a scene featuring Joseph Cotten and Agnes Moorehead that was deleted by RKO Pictures from the released version of the film.
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The hunt for Orson Welles’ fabled lost, longer cut of “The Magnificent Ambersons” will be undertaken by a documentary film crew bound for Brazil this fall.
Turner Classic Movies announced Tuesday it will distribute the documentary that director Josh Grossberg intends to make about his search for cinema’s Holy Grail.
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How ‘Nomadland’ Cinematographer Survived a Scorpion Bite and ‘The Crud’ to Shoot Oscar Favorite
TheWrap awards magazine: Joshua James Richards talks about the pain and ecstasy of filming Chloé Zhao’s remarkable feature about a woman living a nomadic life in the American West By Joe McGovern | March 4, 2021 @ 1:40 PM Last Updated: March 4, 2021 @ 2:57 PM
A version of this story about “Nomadland” appears in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.
Cinematographer Joshua James Richards, an awards magnet for his gorgeous orangey work on “Nomandland,” has spent most of his career out in the real, rural world. His credits include three features with “Nomadland” director (and his partner in life), Chloé Zhao, all made in the American West or Midwest, where scorpions dance maniacally along the desert floor. (More on that below.)