Interview (Audio): Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich

3 1/2 hours of an extended conversation between the two filmmakers.

In the introduction to the book This is Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich wrote:

“I first met Orson Welles toward the end of 1968 and not long after we began taping our conversations for a book about his career that he hoped would ‘set the record straight.’ We started in his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and then resumed a couple of weeks later in Guaymas, Mexico, where Orson was acting in the movie of Catch-22.”

Their talks continued in places from New York’s Plaza Hotel and Rome’s Hotel Eden to, for whatever reason, Carefree, Arizona, exploring not just the well-known chapters of Welles’ career, but his experiences with now-overlooked or never-completed projects like most of his countless radio dramas, his early adaptation of Cecil Day-Lewis’ Smiler with a Knife, and his later adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial.

Here is the audio recording of their ‘movable feast’ of a conversation.

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