Event

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Tue Apr 16: 3.00pm
Wed Apr 17: 7.30pm
Sun Apr 21: 4.30pm
Sat Apr 27: 7.00pm
Sun Apr 28: 7.30pm

Mark Cousins
UK
2018
1h 55m

About
Cinema historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film: An Odyssey) charts the unknown territory of the imagination of one of the twentieth centurys most revolutionary artists. Granted unprecedented access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings by Orson Wellestantalizing, never-before-seen glimpses into the filmmakers rich inner lifeCousins sheds new light on the experiences, dreams, desires, and obsessions that fueled his creativity and inspired his masterpieces. Playful, profound, and as daringly iconoclastic as its subject, The Eyes of Orson Welles is a one-of-a-kind work of visual archaeology, a fresh way of looking at a cinematic giant whose singular worldviewfiercely humanist, defiantly anti-authoritarianresonates now more urgently than ever.

Cousins is smart, passionate and searching to the extent that he has more than earned the right to experiment. His sharing of his immediate experience of Welles is very likely to enrich your own. Glenn Kenny, The New York Times