Orson Welles has quite a field day directing and starring in MR. ARKADIN
MR. ARKADIN (CONFIDENTIAL REPORT) (Orson Welles, 1956)
MoMA Film, Museum of Modern Art
The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building
4 West 54th St. between Fifth & Sixth Aves.
September 19-21, 1:30
Tickets: $12, in person only, may be applied to museum admission within thirty days, same-day screenings free with museum admission, available at Film and Media Desk beginning at 9:30 am
212-708-9400
www.moma.org
Orson Welles re-creates Citizen Kane with a little bit of The Third Man in this offbeat, very strange story of a powerful man with a weird beard who has a thing for his daughter. The odd camera angles are often funny, and Michael Redgrave’s scene-stealing bit as an antiques dealer is a riot. The movie, which has appeared over the years in many different versions, is worth seeing just for Arkadin’s famous tale of the scorpion and the frog. Also known as Confidential Report, Mr. Arkadin is screening September 19-21 as part of MoMA’s ongoing “An Auteurist History of Film” series.