The exhibition will include special guests Oja Kodar, Welles’ longtime collaborator; Esteve Riambau Möller of Filmoteca de Catalunya; Stefan Droessler of Munich Stadtmuseum; and authors Simon Callow and François Thomas.
The Cinematheque francaise exhibition will run from October 8, 2025 through January 11, 2026, according to a 12-page notice posted on a French government website.
Casa del Cinema in Rome will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Orson Welles this year with a series of films under the umbrella, “W for Welles.”
A 35mm print of Orson Welles’ adaptation of “Macbeth” with the original “Scottish burr” soundtrack will be screened on April 12 and 17 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
“The Broadcast Frenzy Radio Show” will culminate in a staged reading on or near the anniversary of the “War of the Worlds” broadcast on October 30, 2025 in New Jersey.
The Museum of the Moving Image in New York will be screening two Orson Welles classics in the coming weeks, “The Lady from Shanghai” and “The Magnificent Ambersons.”
“Exploring the War of the Worlds: 1938 Radio Broadcast” will be presented on October 30 at 6 p.m. by Jason Rimkus, media coordinator for Kenosha Community Media.
The Orson Welles-directed thriller in which he starred with then-wife Rita Hayworth is part of the Locarno retrospective “The Lady with a Torch – A Centenary of Columbia Pictures.”
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will feature Orson Welles’ adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial” as part of a retrospective honoring the Prague-born writer on the 100th anniversary of his death.
“Orson Welles as Family Man: Son, Husband, Father” is showcased in an exhibit through April 29 at the Hatcher Gallery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
The Jerusalem Cinematheque series showcases nine Orson Welles movies in February beginning with his landmark “Citizen Kane” on February 5.
The Free Library of Philadelphia will conclude its seven-part lecture series exploring the life and career of Orson Welles with a pair of talks in October.