News Summary

• A startup called Fable announced an ambitious plan to re-create the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons.” Fable has not obtained the rights to the film, making this a prospective tech demo that will probably never be released to the general public.
• The only reason we care about “Ambersons” today is because of Welles — because of how it derailed his Hollywood career, and how even in its diminished form, it still reveals so much of his filmmaking genius.