Orson Welles centenary celebrations and film festivals

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May 6, 2015 will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles.
Celebrations are set in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.

 

★ New York City’s Film Forum and Paley Center for Media screenings

  • January 1 through February 3: The Film Forum offerings with guests daughter Chris Welles Feder, William Friedkin and Joseph McBride
  • February 7-8 and February 14-15: The Paley Center will celebrate Welles’ TV work

 

★ Milan Cinematheque presents films directed by or starring Orson Welles

  • January 7 -30
  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons,  Macbeth, Othello, Chimes at Midnight, Mr. Arkadian, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil , F For Fake and five more

 

★ Cleveland Museum of Art – F For Fabulous: Five Films By Orson Welles

  • January 11 through February 27
  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and F For Fake

 

★ Harvard Film Archive – Orson Welles, Part 1

  • January 23 through February 8
  • Citizen Kane, Chimes at Midnight, The Magnificent Ambersons, Macbeth, The Lady From Shanghai, Othello, The Trial and F For Fake

★ University of Wisconsin – Orson Welles: Centennial Celebration

  • January 24 through February 28
  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, The Lady From Shanghai, Othello, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil and F For Fake

★ Belcourt Theatre in Nashville – Orson Welles: 100 Years

  • February 20 through March 4
  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, The Lady From Shanghai, Othello, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil and more

★  Sedona International Film Festival

  • February 24 through March 1
  • Series of screenings and retrospectives of Welles’ work coordinated by his daughter, Beatrice, with guests including Jeffrey Lyons and Josh Karp.
  • Citizen Kane,  Othello, Chimes at Midnight and Touch of Evil. Also,  The Battle Over Citizen Kane and Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles.

 

★ Rosebud, The Lives of Orson Welles starring Erik Van Beuzekom

★ Celebrating The Genius Of Orson Welles at 92nd Street Y in New York

  • March 3, 2:30 p.m.
  • Film historian Philip Harwood presents an appreciation through rare recordings, film, documentary and television footage

★ Miami Beach Cinematheque and MIFF – Orson Welles at 100

  • The Lady From Shanghai (March 5), The Stranger (March 7), Citizen Kane (March 12), Othello (March 19), and Touch of Evil (March 26)

★ TCM Classic Film Festival, Hollywood 

  • Chimes at Midnight (March 27)

★ Orson Welles & Identity, Oklahoma City Museum of Art 

  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, Confidential Report, The Stranger, Othello, Touch of Evil and F for Fake. (March 27-April5)

★ Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, Austin, Texas

  • April 4-May 25
  • Citizen Kane, Chimes at Midnight, Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles and more

 

★  Orson Welles Retrospective,  Queensland Arts Gallery, Australia

  • April 5 -May 28
  • Citizen Kane and 11 other Welles-directed efforts, as well as documentaries and TV projects

★ Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, Germany

  • April and May
  • Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, The Trial,  Touch of Evil and more

★ Wisconsin Film Festival

  • April 9-16
  • Too Much Johnson, Chimes at Midnight, Crack in the Mirror and Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

★ It’s All True Festival, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

  • April 9-19
  • F For Fake, It’s All True: Based On An Unfinished Film By Orson Welles

★ ‘Orson Welles/Shylock’ – A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play

      By Matt Chiorini, the story of Welles’ many unsuccessful attempts to play the role and the surprising and heartbreaking ways that his life overlapped with the character. Premiering at the Columbia Festival for the Arts in Maryland in April 2015; Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, in June, 2015; and at the Harvard/Ca Foscari “Shylock Project Summer School” in Venice, Italy in July 2015.

★ Museum of Modern Art, New York City

  • April 17-23
  • Citizen Kane and The Hearts of Age

 

★ Málaga Film Festival, Madrid

  • April 17-26
  • Chimes at Midnight with roundtable discussion

 

★  AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland

  • April 17-Jul 1
  • Twenty two films ranging from Citizen Kane to F For Fake

 

★ Newport Beach Film Festival, California

  • April 26
  • Othello and Fade to Black with discussion on Welles in Europe

 

★ Indiana University celebration and symposium

  • April 29-May 2
  • Talks by noted authors James Naremore, Joseph McBride, Marguerite Rippy,   Paolo Cherchi Usai, Patrick McGilligan, and Jonathan Rosenbaum
  • Exhibition of rare and unique items from the Welles collection at Lilly Library
  • Orson Welles film screenings

 

★ Turner Classic Movies  airs Welles movies on Friday nights in May

 

★  The Trylon Microcinema, Minneapolis

  • May 1-June 2
  • F For Fake, Mr. Arkadin, Othello and much more

 

★   Kino Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

  • May 2-31
  • Lectures by John Binotto, Jens Köthner Kaul and screenings of Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady From Shanghai, Othello, Touch of Evil, The Trial, F for Fake, The Third Man and Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

 

★   Portuguese Cinematheque, Lisbon

  • May 4-22
  • Citizne Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons,  Othello, Macbeth, Mr. Arkadin, F For Fake, more

 

★ Third Man Museum, Vienna, Austria

  •  Centennial exhibit May 4 through Dec. 31
  • May 6, guided tours at 2 and 4 p.m. in English with special birthday gift

★ Galeriji Fotokluba, Split Croatia

  • May 5-26
  • Exhibit of photos taken during the filming of The Deep

★ Kino im Filmhaus,  Saarbrücken, Germany

  • May 5-June 9
  • Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Trial and more

 

★ Hollywood Theater, Pittsburgh

  •  May 6, 7 p.m.
  • Citizen Kane and birthday cake with Bob Hoover, former book editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 

★ Brattle Theatre, Boston

  •  May 6 and 7 – Citizen Kane

 

★ Century of  Orson Welles, Buenos Aires

  •  May 6 – F For Fake and rarities

★Princeton Garden Theater, New Jersey

  • May 6-June 3
  • Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, Lady From Shanghai and The Stranger

★ OrsonWelles: Output, Reception and Heritage, Gdansk, Poland

  • May 6-7
  • Look at his work as an American living in Erope, the reception of his films in Poland, examination of his portrayal of Falstaff, The War of the Worlds and more

★ Woodstock Celebrates in Welles’ adopted hometown 

  • May 6-23

★ Citizen Welles Society of Kenosha

  • May 6-31

 

★ The Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • May 6 – June 30
  • 35 Welles-related films
  • Guests include Chris Welles Feder, Joseph McBride and Keith Baxter

 

★  The Loft Cinema, Tucson 

  •  May 7 – 28
  • The Lady from Shanghai, The Magnificent Ambersons, Touch of Evil and  Citizen Kane

★ Cannes International Film Festival, France

  • May 13-24
  • 4K restorations of Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai and The Third Man, as well as two new hour-long documentaries on Welles.

 

★  Orson Welles 100, Vancouver Cinematheque, Canada

  • May 14 – June 25
  • Citizen Kane and 11 other Welles-directed efforts

 

★  Welles 100: Part One 1941-1948, San Rafael, California

  • May 31 – June 29
  • Welles-directed films from Citizen Kane through The Lady From Shanghai

 

★  Institut Lumiere‘s Orson Welles Retrospective, Lyon, France

  • June 3 to July 12

★ Wellespring: A Centenary Celebration, University of Michigan

  • June 6-10
  • Oja Kodar, Stefan Droessler, Catherine Benamou, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and James Naremore , as well as other guests and film screenings.

 

★  Hong Kong Arts Centre, China

  •  June 13- July 19
  •  Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and more

★  Cinematheque Francaise‘s Orson Welles Celebration, Paris,France

  • June 17 to Aug. 2

★ The Munich Film Museum, Munich, Germany

  • Retrospect of completed and unfinished works, July 7 – Aug.2

★ Orson Welles: The Great Disruptor, British Film Institute 

  • Events planned for July 1 to and August 31
  • Film screenings, DVD releases and panel talks

★ Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, New York

  • August 26 – October 25
  • Weekend showings, including Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Trial and more

★  Venice International Film Festival

  • September 1 pre-festival screenings
  • The Merchant of Venice, Othello (early 1951 Italian edit)

★ University of Wisconsin – Orson Welles: Centennial Celebration

  • September 4-26
  • Macbeth, The Trail, The Magnificent Ambersons, and more

 

★ Deauville American Film Festival, Deauville, France

  • September 5-14
  • Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, Touch of Evil and This Is Orson Welles

★ ‘This Is Orson Welles’ – Chapman University, Orange, California

  • September 11
  • Panel with Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph McBride, Henry Jaglom, Peter Jason, FX Feeney and more.
  • Screening of This Is Orson Welles

 

★ Acre Film Libray –   Rio Branco, Brazil

  • September 14-17
  • Citizen Kane, F For Fake, Don Quixote, Touch of Evil and The Lady From Shanghai.

 

★ Arsenale Cinema – Pisa, Italy

  • September 14-15
  • Citizen Kane and The Third Man.

 

★ FTMA Film Festival  – Fairfield Connecticut

  • September 19
  •  Touch of Evil and F For Fake

 

★ Napoli Film Festival – Naples, Italy

  • September 28 – October 4
  • Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons

★ Festival do Rio, Brazil

  • October 1-14
  • Too Much Johnson, The Magnificent Ambersons,  Chimes at Midnight,  Around the World with Orson Welles and  Othello

 

★  La Filmoteca de Andalucía – Cordoba, Spain

  • October 8 to December 19
  • Citizen Kane,  Touch of Evil, Chimes at Midnight and more

 

★ Tokyo International Film Festival

  • October 22-31
  • Citizen Kane, footage from the Munich Film Museum and more

 

★ Welles 100: The Maverick – Smith Rafael Film Center, California

  • October 25 to November 22
  • Emphasis on Welles post 1940s output, speakers include Joseph McBride
  • Othello, Chimes at Midnight, The Immortal Story, Mr.Arkadin and more .

 

★ ‘Welles at 100’ – Montclair State University, New Jersey

  • November 2-3
  • Author James Naremore and director Chuck Workman

 

★ Forma Cinema – Milan, Italy

  • Nov. 4
  •  The Merchant of Venice, Too Much Johnson and a never-before-seen extract from Portrait of Gina

 

★ Cary Theatre  – Cary,  North Carolina

  • November 5-29
  • Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Stranger, Touch of Evil and F for Fake

★ Cork Film Festival – Cork, Ireland

  • November 6-15
  • Citizen Kane, The Lady From Shanghai, Othello and F for Fake

★ Zagreb Film Festival

  • November 14-22
  •  The Trial, Filming Othello, The Stranger and more

★ The Unknown Orson Welles at MoMA, New York City

  • November 19-22
  • The Merchant of Venice, The Deep, The Dreamers and more.

★ Torino  Film Festival – Turin, Italy

  • November 20-28
  • Citizen Kane, Mr.Arkadin and Touch of Evil.

★ Northwest Film Center – Portland, Oregon

  • December 12 – January. 4
  • Citizen Kane, Immortal Story,  Touch of Evil and more.