AFI Fest 2016 will host a special 75th anniversary screening of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane on November 13.
The American Film Institute showing will take place at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Later, Welles colleague Peter Bogdanovich and the late filmmaker’s youngest daughter, Beatrice Welles, will take part in an AFI Master Class, led by Scott Mantz of Access Hollywood.
Beatrice Welles will share her father’s feelings toward Citizen Kane and its legacy, while Bogdanovich, who co-authored the book This Is Orson Welles, is expected to detail the making and importance of the movie.
Bogdanovich recent discussed Citizen Kane in an online interview with the AFI, where he said, “I was influenced by Orson’s thinking, and things he said to me. But I wasn’t particularly influenced by the film. I wasn’t influenced by the technique of it as much as by the youthful spirit of it. I was influenced by a general feeling of fearlessness.”
The screening at the week-long film festival will be presented from a DCP, courtesy of Warner Bros. Classics. For ticket information, visit afifest.afi.com/2016/sections/t4662
Warner Bros. Home Video will release its 75th anniversary Blu-ray and DVD edition of Citizen Kane on November 15.
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