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Kodar - Cinemazero – Filmmuseum - Munchen
Venice Lido: 72nd Film Festival - Tribute to Orson Welles. Dedicated entirely to the immortal genius of Orson Welles, for the
centennial of his birth, two of his “Venetian” masterpieces inspired by
Shakespeare and remarkably found and restored – The Merchant of Venice (1969, a film that was thought to have
been lost) and Otello (1951), were
shown at the pre-opening of Film
Festival.
Above. Orson Welles on the set of The Merchant of Venice.
Shakespeare and Cigars Exhibition. Shakespeare and Cigars is a
small exhibition of twelve studies for Shakespearean characters painted by Orson Welles himself and
curated by Bianca Lavagnino and Sergio Toffetti. The wooden panels are painted
on the back of his favorite cigars boxes in the 1960s featuring portraits in
oil of a series of Shakespearean characters: Macbeth, Othello, Falstaff, Shylock…
Above.
Orson Welles – Othello – 1960s. “I hate this Othello, a good deal less
than the others…BUT IT MUST FACE, JAGO.”
Courtsey La Biennale di Venezia
Orson Welles – Othello
Shakespeare
and Cigars – Tribute to Orson
Welles
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