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March 18
GET TICKETSThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Filmed while Welles was in Brazil on a government mission, the Ambersons' decline mirrors the mutilation of the movie itself, cut to pieces by RKO against his wishes. What survives on screen is a haunting portrait of vanished privilege and changing America, glowing with Bernard Herrmann's last score for Welles and begging to be rediscovered with an audience.
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April 22
GET TICKETSThe Lady From Shanghai (1947)
Shot on Rita Hayworth's newly shorn platinum hair, an image that shocked Hollywood, the film drifts from Acapulco waters to that legendary funhouse of mirrors at Venice Pier. Its fractured finale reflects the off-screen marriage collapsing even as Welles crafted one of noir's most daring visual experiments.
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May 20
GET TICKETSThe Stranger (1946)
Welles stepped into this tale of a Nazi fugitive to prove he could work within the studio system, creating the first Hollywood film to use actual death-camp footage. Beneath the Connecticut clock tower, his villain meets a fate as sharp and precise as the gears that tick above him.
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June 17
GET TICKETSTouch of Evil (1958)
Shot on the border streets of Venice, California, the film's bravura opening, one long swooping take, was nearly discarded by the studio until Welles fought to restore it decades later. Quinlan's downfall, recorded on a wire in an oil-field canal, marks one of cinema's great resurrections, a masterpiece reclaimed from chaos.
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July 15
F for Fake (1973)
GET TICKETSFilmed partly in Ibiza and Paris, this freewheeling essay resurrects the notorious forger Elmyr de Hory and the hoax biographer Clifford Irving, who himself fooled the world with his fake Howard Hughes autobiography. Welles, ever the magician, ends his film with dazzling cinematic trickery of his own, proudly announcing it the moment the clock strikes midnight.
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August 19
The Third Man (1949)
GET TICKETSOrson Welles dominates "The Third Man" as Harry Lime - a charismatic, dangerous ghost whose presence haunts postwar Vienna long before he appears. When Joseph Cotten's Holly Martins arrives to see his old friend, he finds a maze of lies, black-market intrigue, and a death that won't stay settled. The mystery tightens through occupied streets and shifting loyalties, building to Welles' legendary ferris wheel speech and a breathless chase in the city’s sewers, driven by Anton Karas' unforgettable zither score. Stylish, suspenseful, and wickedly smart, it’s noir at its most irresistible.
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SEPTEMBER 16
Citizen Kane (1941)
GET TICKETSWidely regarded as the greatest motion picture ever made, Citizen Kane tops the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films of All Time. Orson Welles' groundbreaking 1941 debut remains a towering achievement in cinema, innovative, daring, and endlessly influential.
