UPDATED ON FEB. 1: Despite being programmed against the Super Bowl, Chimes at Midnight played to a packed house with folks turned away!
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Beatrice Welles will field audience questions via Skype following a screening of Chimes at Midnight at the Film Forum in New York City on Sunday, February 1.

Welles’ youngest daughter, who makes her home in Arizona, will take part in the Q&A session after the 5:30 p.m. screening – yes, directly opposite Super Bowl XLIX.

Tickets are priced at $7.50 for Film Forum members and $13 for the general public.

Beatrice Welles was 9 years old when she played Sir John Falstaff’s young page in Chimes at Midnight. She told Wellesnet she also played the page at an even younger age in an Irish stage  production that also starred her father as Falstaff and Keith Baxter as Prince Hal.

Her half-sister, Chris Welles Feder, joined film historian Joseph McBride for a Film Forum screening of the “Scottish” version of Welles’ 1948 film adaptation of Macbeth on January 16 as part of the Orson Welles 100 series.

The five-week series, which marks the 100th anniversary of Welles’ birth on May 6, kicked off on January 1.

Remaining showings include:

Jan. 30-31 – The Trial (new restoration)
Feb. 1 – Chimes at Midnight (DCP restoration courtesy Filmoteca Española)
Feb. 1-2 – Touch of Evil (reconstruction)
Feb. 2 – Too Much Johnson with a live reading of the play
Feb. 3 – A Man For All Seasons
Feb. 3 – Someone to Love
Feb. 5 – Too Much Johnson with a live reading of the play

The Film Forum is located in the West Village near Soho at 209 West Houston Street. Visit the Film Forum website for times, ticket prices.

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