OW Celebration near San Francisco

[Wellesnet]

Part 1 of a Welles retrospective near San Francisco starts May 31st:
http://rafaelfilm.cafilm.org/welles-100-part-one/

[Wellesnet]

Joe McBride presents Ambersons in San Rafael theatre:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

SAN RAFAEL SOCKO FOR "AMBERSONS"": Sunday, June 14, I presented my favorite movie (twice) sat the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, California. We showed a 35mm print of Orson Welles's mutilated masterpiece THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS along with the trailer and several scenes from Roger Ryan's creative "reconstruction" of what the original Welles version was like. We had a total of more than 100 people in all for both showings. Many in the audience had not seen AMBERSONS. They were engrossed in it and enthralled by Roger's work. One person told me she had always wanted to know what the film originally was like, and that this was a great way to find out. This was the sixth place I have presented the AMBERSONS program this year, after Barcelona, Kenosha (Wis.), Woodstock (Ill.), Bloomington (Ind.), and New York. The audiences have always been appreciative and have had good questions; they always want to keep learning more about this great film and what happened to it. My thanks and kudos to Roger -- and Orson, and Agnes Moorehead, and Tim Holt, et al -- and to Richard Peterson, the intrepid and amiable Smith Rafael programmer who is curating a massive Welles series that runs into the fall.

[tonyw]

Yes, let us not forget Tim Holt who did the best of a bad job portraying a character who could be really unlikeable yet present the human being within.