Orson Welles Narrates Coleridge’s Rime of the Historic Mariner in an Experimental Movie That includes the Artwork of Gustave Doré

Round right here we sub­scribe to the the­o­ry that there’s no such factor as an excessive amount of Orson Welles. In years previous, we gave you Welles nar­rat­ing Pla­to’s Cave Alle­pass­ry and Kafka’s “Prior to the Regulation,” and, ahead of that, the Welles-nar­rat­ed para­ble Unfastened­dom Riv­er, and the checklist is going on.

Now, we provide The Rime of the Historic Mariner, a 1977 exper­i­males­tal movie cre­at­ed by means of Lar­ry Jor­dan, an inde­pen­dent movie­mak­er who attempted to mar­ry “the clas­sic engrav­ings of Gus­tave Doré to the clas­sic poem by means of Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge thru a clas­sic nar­ra­tor: Orson Welles.” As Jor­dan describes it, the movie is “a protracted opi­um dream of the previous Mariner (Welles) who wan­ton­ly killed the alba­tross and suf­fered the trials of the damned for it.” You’ll be able to watch above.

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