FINALLY got to see this in its original format (2.35:1) and with all the original music restored. Now for sure one of my top 3 of Altmann's.

Seriously?

Though this is just the 40 minute work-print of selected scenes that Welles edited, there's no doubt that this is some sort of masterpiece, and I do hope the crowd funding campaign is a success. If the film-within-a-film is meant to be a dig at "art cinema" of the day, Orson has nailed it.

Czech new-wave weirdness. If only all comic book movies were like this...