Cinémathèque Francaise’s three-month tribute to filmmaker Orson Welles draws to a close on January 18, but a sampling of the My Name Is Orson Welles presentations have been preserved on a series of online videos.
The Paris retrospect began on October 8, 2025 and was timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Welles’ death on October 10, 1985. A 464-page French language coffee table book containing papers related to the retrospective was published by Les Éditions de la Table Ronde.
Lectures featuring Simon Callow, Catherine Benamou, François Thomas, Julie Vatain-Corfdir and Frédéric Bonnaud were captured in four videos available at cinematheque.fr/cycle/orson-welles-1434.html and vimeo.com/cinemathequefr. They are embedded below. (Most videos are in French with some English spoken.)
Dialogue with Simon Callow
Hosted by Frédéric Bonnaud
Shakespeare as Seen by Orson Welles: The Magnificent Obsession.
Roundtable discussion with Simon Callow, Julie Vatain-Corfdir and François Thomas, moderated by Frédéric Bonnaud
Presentation of It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993)
By Catherine Benamou
Welles: Editing and Re-editing
A lecture by François Thomas
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