Instructor: Lance Rhoades
8 Sessions: 7:00-10:00pm
Tuition: $295.00

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”
—Orson Welles

Before his first feature film, Orson Welles made waves in theater and radio with shocking and audacious productions, including a voodoo Macbeth featuring Haitian witch doctors and a Halloween broadcast of War of the Worlds that caused nationwide panic.

Soon afterwards, he took Hollywood by storm by taking on William Randolph Hearst, one of the world’s most powerful media moguls, making in the process what many consider to be the greatest film of all time — Citizen Kane. Although studios would never let him have the same freedom or budget again, Welles continued to make exceptional films, such as The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai, Othello, Touch of Evil, The Trial, Chimes at Midnight, and F for Fake. Welles also continued to make outrageous but insightful statements about the film industry and about himself. This course is a comprehensive survey of the works and the words of one of cinema’s true giants.

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