The Essential Orson Welles will run May 3 through June 7 at the Bing Theater on Saturdays.
According to Los Angeles Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan, the screenings will include the recently discovered Too Much Johnson, a new digital version of Touch of Evil and a 35mm print of The Trial from a private collection. Welles’ personal favorite, Chimes at Midnight, and his last theatrical offering, F For Fake, will close the series.
Kudos to Turan for not only working in plugs for “Orson Welles In Italy” by Alberto Anile and “Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts” by Todd Tarbox in his article, but also for likening Welles’ career to that of baseball great Mickey Mantle.
Turan wrote, “Critics argue ceaselessly over why someone so gifted faced so many hardships — was the problem Hollywood intransigence, Welles’ personality or some combination of the two? — but talking about him as a director is curiously equivalent to talking to baseball fans about the plight of the often-injured New York Yankee Mickey Mantle: How great could these men have been if they’d been able to operate at the peak of their powers?”
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will screen:
•Too Much Johnson: May 3
•Citizen Kane: May 10
•The Magnificent Ambersons: May 17
•The Stranger: May 17
•The Lady From Shanghai: May 24
•Mr. Arkadin: May 24
•The Trial: May 31
•Touch of Evil: May 31
•Chimes at Midnight: June 7
•F For Fake: June 7
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