Looking Again at Orson Welles

June 9–July 10, 2019

An intriguing new documentary on Welles’s multifaceted creative career is the inspiration for this series revisiting several of his landmark films.

 

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  • The Eyes of Orson Welles

  • Citizen Kane

  • The Lady from Shanghai

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Macbeth

    • Wednesday, July 10 7 PM
    Orson Welles
    United States, 1948

    Restored 35mm Print

    Aiming to restore Shakespeare’s tragedy to its roots in Scottish legend, Welles achieved an experimental fusion of the Bard and the B picture. “One of the director’s most personal creations” (Village Voice).

  • Chimes at Midnight

    • Saturday, July 6 6 PM
    Orson Welles
    France, Spain, Switzerland, 1966

    Digital Restoration

    Welles embodies Shakespeare’s Falstaff in “a dark masterpiece, shot through with slapstick and sorrow” (Time Out). “Quite likely the greatest Shakespearean film ever” (Christian Science Monitor).

  • The Eyes of Orson Welles

    • Sunday, June 9 7 PM
    • Sunday, June 16 4:30 PM
    • Friday, June 28 8:15 PM
    Mark Cousins
    United Kingdom, 2018

    East Bay Premiere

    The creator of the acclaimed The Story of Film: An Odyssey offers a provocative reexamination of Welles’s life, work, and visual imagination, and asks how he would have met the challenges of our contemporary era.

  • The Lady from Shanghai

    • Wednesday, June 19 7 PM
    Orson Welles
    United States, 1948

    Digital Restoration

    Welles, Rita Hayworth, and a deadly hall of mirrors feature in Welles’s brilliant take on the crime thriller. “Complex, courageous, and utterly compelling” (Time Out).

  • Citizen Kane

    • Wednesday, June 12 7 PM
    Orson Welles
    United States, 1941

    A childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles’s audacious debut, which still tops many critics’ lists of the best films of all time.