An acclaimed Orson Welles documentary and four of his classic films will be showcased by The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Looking Again at Orson Welles, which run June 9 to July 10, will feature three showings of Mark Cousins’ documentary The Eyes of Orson Welles (from DCP) on June 9, 16, and 28.
The four Welles-directed movies to be shown in the series are the landmark Citizen Kane on 35mm (June 12), a digitally restored The Lady from Shanghai co-starring Rita Hayworth from DCP (June 19), digitally restored Chimes at Midnight from Janus Films on DCP (July 6) and a restored 35mm print of Macbeth from the UCLA Film and Television Archive (July 10).
“[Welles’] career as an artist spanned the roles of writer, director, and actor in theater, radio, film, and television. But it is Welles’s lesser-known creative output as a painter that informs Mark Cousins’s new documentary, The Eyes of Orson Welles, a provocative reexamination of Welles’s life, work, and visual imagination. An homage to an influential artist, the film addresses Welles’s intellectual spirit, asking how he would have met the challenges of our contemporary era. We take the opportunity to present this new essay film alongside several of Welles’s landmark films,” said Susan Oxtoby, BAMPFA’s senior film curator, in a statement.
Tickets for each film are $13 for the general public with discounts for BAMPFA members, college students, seniors and moviegoers 18 years and younger.
BAMPFA is the visual arts center of the University of California at Berkeley.
It is located at 2155 Center Street, between Oxford Street and Shattuck Avenue, in downtown Berkeley.
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