Orson Welles in Rio

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil

Friday, 9/10, 15h - Teatro I,

ORSON, 100 YEARS ON: A PANORAMA, with James Naremore (Indiana University)

ORSON WELLES IN SPAIN, with Esteve Riambau (Filmoteca de Catalunya)

Mediation: Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

James Naremore has worked as professor of cinema at Indiana University and is author of the classic book The Magic World of Orson Welles (an absolute must for all Welles scholars) and of More Than Night, a key text on American Cinema Noir. Here, he will present on the importance of Welles’ cinematographic production and discuss the future of the director’s unfinished works and those works which are in the process of being restored.

Esteve Riambau, author of Orson Welles: Una España imortal (Orson Welles: An immortal Spain) and of a documentary about Welles’ time spent in Spain, will speak about the long relationship between the American director and European country, homeland of Cervantes, focussing in depth on Falsaff (Chimes at Midnight). Riambeau is director of the Filmoteca de Catalunya.

Saturday, 10/10, 10h30 - Teatro I

ORSON WELLES AND “CINEMA NOVO”, with Nelson Pereira dos Santos (director / Academia Brasileira de Letras)

WELLES, GLAUBER AND SGANZERLA, with Joel Pizzini (director)

Mediation: João Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

The directors Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Joel Pizzini will form a roundtable to discuss the impact and the possible and probable influences of Welles’ work on Brazilian cinema. Nelson Pereira dos Santos is one of the biggest names of the Brazilian movement “Cinema Novo”, director of the iconic Brazilian film, Vidas Secas, who experienced firsthand the golden age of Welles in the USA and in Europe. Joel Pizzini, is an important authority on Brazilian director Rogério Sganzerla’s fixation for the American director’s work, a fixation that led Sganzerla to make four films about Welles. Pizzini is the author of the film Mr. Sganzerla, in which Welles features as a sort of phantom of the opera, a haunting influence.

Saturday, 10/10, 15h - Teatro I

‘HELLO AMERICANS!’ WELLES AND THE GOOD NEIGHBOUR POLICY, with Darlene Sadlier (Indiana University)

IT’S ALL TRUE: WELLES AND BRASIL, with Catherine Benamou (University of California)

Mediation: João Luiz Vieira (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Darlene Sadlier, Emirates professor at Indiana University and renowned Brazilianist, is the author of publications about the Good Neighbour Policy, most notably the book Americans All: Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II. In this event she will focus on a series of radio programmes Welles recorded about Brazil entitled Hello Americans!

Catherine L. Benamou, professor at the University of California, is author of the most notable book that deals with Welles’ biggest “flop”: It's All True. At this event, she will present photos taken during the filming in Rio and other Brazilian cities, in 1942.