The 41st Deauville American Film Festival (Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville) pays homage to Orson Welles during its Sept. 5-14 run in France.
Three of his films – Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil – will be sceened, along with the TCM Cinema and Wichita Films documentary This Is Orson Welles from Clara and Julia Kuperberg.
The tribute comes during the centennial year of Welles’ birth.
The Deauville festival described Welles as an “enduring legend of world cinema, who at an early age reinvented the grammar of his art with his masterpiece Citizen Kane. François Truffaut spoke of how Welles had inspired so many filmmaking careers. He also put his stamp of innovation on films such as Falstaff, Mr. Arkadin and Touch of Evil.”
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