The most affordable tribute to the late Orson Welles on centenary of his birth comes courtesy of the University of California at Irvine.
Noted Welles scholar and author Catherine Benamou has organized a free screening of Chimes at Midnight on Wednesday, February 25, at 6 p.m.
The showing will be accompanied by a talk given by Michael Anderegg, author of Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture.
In his talk “‘Every Third Word a Lie’ 𔂿 Rhetoric and History in Chimes at Midnight,” Anderegg examines the use and abuse of power and the relationship of love to betrayal. Welles centers his adaptive strategies on a conflict between rhetoric and history on the one hand and the immediacy of a timeless physical world on the other
Those interested in attending the Irvine screening should RSVP online at the UCI Illuminations ticket site.
Benamou is the author of It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey and was an associate producer and senior research executive on the 1993 documentary film It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles. She is guest curator and consultant of the Orson Welles Archive, Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and consultant on the archival preservation of footage from It’s All True at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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