Part of David Bordwell: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture
Saturday, June 25, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

Introduced by David Bordwell, followed by book signing

Dir. Orson Welles.1941, 119 mins. 35mm. With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore. For decades consistently ranked by critics and filmmakers around the world as the greatest movie of all time, Welles’s perversely grandiose portrait of a newspaper tycoon loosely based on William Randolph Hearst is a dazzling work of art that ushered in a new era in virtuosic filmmaking and fragmented cinematic narratives. Grappling with Citizen Kane, Otis Ferguson wrote “its presentation is managed in complex ways and its conclusions are so vague with the shadows of meaning that it is easy to read almost anything into it, including what was actually put there.” The screening will be followed by a signing of The Rhapsodes, the new book by David Bordwell, in the Museum store.

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