Wisconsin’s Own Orson Welles: A Centennial Celebration (Part IV)
The Magnificent Ambersons | USA | USA | 1942 | 35mm | 88 min. Director: Orson Welles
Event Details
Date
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Time
2 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead
Welles’s anticipated follow-up to Citizen Kane was notoriously released by RKO Pictures in a version that seriously altered the director’s original vision. It nonetheless remains a compelling, technically brilliant, and heartbreaking film. This screening of the complete release version will be followed by a special hour-long presentation from noted Welles scholar Joseph McBride that explains Welles’s intentions with the help of rare visual material.
Welles’s anticipated follow-up to Citizen Kane was notoriously released by RKO Pictures in a version that seriously altered the director’s original vision. It nonetheless remains a compelling, technically brilliant, and heartbreaking film. This screening of the complete release version will be followed by a special hour-long presentation from noted Welles scholar Joseph McBride that explains Welles’s intentions with the help of rare visual material.
Cost
Free
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