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Jonathan Rosenbaum, noted film critic and consultant on the restored Touch of Evil and completed The Other Side of the Wind, will host a 14-week lecture series on the work of Orson Welles at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago.
Orson Welles: The Other Side of the Argument will be offered from January 25 until May 7.
A polemical defense and celebration of Orson Welles’ fourteen features and a few of his shorter works, this series will seek to counter some of the ideological and biographical biases that have viewed him as an out-of-control and unfulfilled artist. Despite the very unruly and unorthodox aspects of Welles’ career, the richness of his artistry and the perpetual originality of his accomplishments have yielded challenges that this series will attempt to define, engage with, and honor. The order of the films to be discussed will be roughly chronological, although the existence of varying release dates and different
versions of individual films makes a strict chronology impossible. Anomalies of this kind, frequently the results of Welles’ unconventional work methods, will be addressed and discussed in some detail, because they suggest that different tools and criteria are sometimes needed in order to understand the nature of Welles’ far from conventional aims and achievements.
--Jonathan Rosenbaum