ORSON WELLES Centennial Celebration
OTHELLO (1952)
Hosted by PHILIP HARWOOD • Tuesday, June 30 at 7:30 pm
Orson Welles’ gripping adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic drama of jealousy, love, and betrayal was one of Welles’s most complicated film productions and is considered by many to be one of the finest cinematic renderings of Shakespeare. Welles gives one of his best performances
as General Othello, a moor, who is manipulated into thinking his wife has been unfaithful with one of his officers, when in reality it’s all part of a scheme by the bitter Iago. Brand New Digital Restoration! (USA, 1952, 90 min., DCP)
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.