Spring to Summer-Orson Wells to Jean Pierre Leaud-The Wild Children
Orson Wells 
Today was Orson Wells birthday. Orson was discovered to be a genius when he was 18 months old. America had two great originals, Orson Wells and Marlon Brando, both became copious, funny, strange and tragic.
Wells “Lobbied to get the part of Don Vito Corrleone in The Godfather (1972). Francis Ford Coppola, a fan of his, had to turn him down because he already had Marlon Brando in mind for the role and felt Welles wouldn’t be right for it. ” (from Yahoo imdb trivia).
Filmjourney reviews “F for Fake”. “But the film could also have been called “F for Fame,” as one of the film’s preoccupations is the way notoriety and personality can overwhelm art, imposing notions of “authenticity” and “fakery,” “expertise” and “value,” in ways that are less certain than one might assume.”
Looks like Welles, feels like Welles., from filmbrain.
Some trivia; in Casino Royale Peter Sellers refused to act with Orson Wells., their scenes had to be shot separately. Orson was not impressed with Sellers, whom he found pretentious. (from his biography by Barbara Leaming”.)
H.G. Wells was driving through San Antonio, Texas and stopped to ask the way. The person he happened to ask was none other than Orson Welles who had recently broadcast “The War of the Worlds” on the radio. They got on well and spent the day together. (From Yahoo. imbd).
Kafka’s “The Trial” featured legendary actors, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider and Jeanne Moreau, read the review, here, .
The scene of K’s office was filmed in the Paris train station, Gare d’Orsay, shortly after it was closed and before it became an art museum.
Yesterday was Soren Kierkegaard’s birthday. If you had not read Kierkegaard, start with the “Diary of a Seducer”. A new biography came out called Kierkegaard reviewed by Updike.
Jean-Pierre Leaud shared a birthday with Kierkegaard. He did appear in a film called “The Diary of a Seducer” even though I had seen the film, I don’t remember anything of the film except for Chiara Mastroianni starring in it.
Jean Pierre is a Taurus/monkey or a Unsinkable Whiz Kid
Truffaut described Jean Pierre; “Jean-Pierre interests me precisely because of his anachronism and his romanticism: he is a nineteenth-century man.”
The Mother and the Whore.
“Eustache’s film is both an extension of and a departure from the nouvelle vague: while the film’s gorgeous black and white evocation of Paris has the look and feel of early Godard, the filmmaker he most resembles is John Cassavettes”
Another review of “Mother and the Whore” from Waggish.
The Unbearable Lightness of Jean Pierre Leaud.
“He has had the experience of growing up in public – who else has done this so visibly, as both actor and character?”
Because of Tenderness:Thoughts on the Performance of Jean-Pierre Léaud
“Léaud’s performances for Truffaut were that of a lonely, romantic outsider, for Godard, Léaud was a dogmatic and often didactic idealist who also skirted the fringes of life.”