Film screening, plus a talk by Michael Anderegg (author of Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture):
"'Every Third Word a Lie'--Rhetoric and History in Chimes at Midnight"
In this film, Orson Welles adapts parts of four Shakespeare plays in such a way that the act of adaptation is woven into the texture of the film itself, drawing on issues in Shakespeare that are particularly meaningful to him: the use and abuse of power and the relationship of love to betrayal. Welles centers his adaptive strategies on a conflict between rhetoric and history on the one hand and the immediacy of a timeless physical world on the other. This conflict comes to us primarily through the actions and character of Falstaff, but it informs as well nearly every moment of Welles's film.
Free and open to the public.