"I'll need a nose--"

 Today we had two performances of Love Goddess, I didn't trip up once, and that requires a bit of upper body strength, so I'm afraid I'm now a little too tired to do anything more than just fob you dear unatendees off with some more Orson Welles content. Here are a couple of stills from Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, directed by Chuck Workman (do you think he's American?) I saw it last night and I'd like to think that, for all the ways I don't look like him, Welles would have killed for a big old nose like mine.

 

 One of the joys of Magician, for me at least, is the number of clips I now recognise from my own youtube research, as previously posted on this blog, and the wealth of guests Workman presents to provide commentary on this material is also breathtaking: not only Simon Callow and Peter Bogdanovich, not only Richard Linklater, Julie Taymor, Spielberg, Lucas and Scorsese, not only Welles' last "companion" Oja Kodar spilling tea gloriously from the Vila Welles on the Dalmation Coast – although I'm pretty sure that, in a rare slip-up from Workman, this...

 

 ... is actually a picture of Vincent D'Onofrio – but even one of Orson's own former classmates (not a fan) and perhaps most surprisingly of all, again at least to me, Peter Brook, who also appears at the end of this trailer. I spent some of my time off today researching Brook's collaboration with Welles further, but I'll probably present that tomorrow. And I thought it more sporting to embed the trailer than the whole documentary, but you can watch that here.