Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world.
Field of Dreams – Script to Screen
Video interview at University California Television
Field of Dreams is one of my favourite sporting movies and remains at No. 17 on my all-time favourite movies list. I watched it again for the umpteenth time only recently with my children. Way back in 2014 near the inception of my blog I wrote an article called Baseball Romanticism and Perfecting the Strike Zone in which I quoted Terence Mann’s unforgettable People Will Come speech from the movie.
So it was a big surprise when this video interview with Field of Dream’s writer/director Phil Alden Robinson came into my You Tube feed. I couldn’t recommend it more highly to fans of the film. Phil is very generous and humiliating and offers such fascinating insight into the production of the film.
The Woodstock 69 Line Up
Web page presentation at Woodstock.com
I recently discussed the Isle of Wight festival in Dylan’s Mighty Quinn article. This festival occurred two weeks after the Woodstock festival both in August 1969. Dylan of course shunned the Woodstock Festival, held near his home in upstate New York, for his comeback show on the little-known Isle of Wight on the other side of the Atlantic. During my research for the Quinn song I stumbled upon this marvellous web page called The Woodstock 69 Line Up. The web design and presentation is some of the best I have ever seen, and contains such stunning photography and comprehensive information about each performing artist and act. It’s just such a wondrous record of the legendary event whereby any music aficionado should have more than enough to chew on.
1960: How did Orson Welles make Citizen Kane?
Video interview at BBC Archive
My father attempted to introduce me to Citizen Kane as a young’un, but I would always fall asleep just after Charles Forster Kane (also a young’un) was torn away from his snow sled. The movie now sits at No. 3 on my movie list. Anyway, on a recent Monday News on the March edition, I mentioned how two of my favourite movie-making documentaries were Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse and The Battle Over Citizen Kane. Then fortuitously just yesterday this 1960 BBC interview arrived with Orson – How did Orson Welles make Citizen Kane?
Let me just say this: I don’t think I’ve heard Orson say anything where I didn’t find myself engrossed whether it’s his narration of my favourite short story by Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince or his infamous broadcast of H. G. Wells – The War of the Worlds that caused all sorts of panic and strife. Even beyond that, his unscripted interviews such as today’s I find myself equally entranced. His wit and elocution is masterful. To me this interview is a wonderful accompaniment of the aforementioned documentary on Kane. For the cinephiles out there I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
An aside; the source of inspiration for my Monday’s segment title – ‘News on the March‘ came straight out of the movie Citizen Kane, hence why you see the images which bookend these posts.
That is all. Thank you for reading.
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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