Orson Welles Centennial Celebration
MAGICIAN: THE ASTOUNDING LIFE & WORK OF ORSON WELLES
Hosted by PHILIP HARWOOD • Thursday, June 25 at 7:30 pm
Chuck Workman’s new documentary looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles - the meaning of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director, and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles had a remarkable life: a musical prodigy at age 10, a director of Shakespeare at 14, a painter at 16, a star of stage and radio at 20, romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world, including Rita Hayworth. His work was similarly extraordinary, most famously Citizen Kane, created by Welles when he was only 25, but also later masterworks like Touch of Evil, Othello, and The Trial, many produced independently and financed by Welles’ acting in other people’s movies. (USA, 2014, 94 min., PG-13, DCP | Dir. Chuck Workman)
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles
Orson Welles was an artist with a vision. One of the great revolutionaries of cinema, Welles never stopped experimenting and pushing the boundaries of cinematic art. The result was an amazing series of masterworks that feel as fresh today as when they were brand new. Join Film Historian Philip
Harwood for a lively centennial celebration of the life and career of the man who is one of cinema’s greatest artists and the most larger-than-life figure in film history.
Philip Harwood is a film historian, who teaches film at LIU: C.W. Post, 92d Street Y, and The JCC in Manhattan. He was Coordinator for Lifelong Learning at Queens College. He taught film studies at the New School for Social Research. He is also a published author.
