Downtown Huntsville Library
All's Welles That Ends Welles - A Film Series
Monday, May 4, 2026 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Citizen Kane (1941)
After the death of a spectacularly wealthy newspaper magnate, reporters making a film reel of his life attempt to uncover the meaning of his final words by interviewing all the people who knew him that they can find.
Directed, produced, and starring Orson Welles (only 25 years old at the time of filming) and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane has been selected as or called “the greatest film ever made” perhaps more than any other film in history.
All’s Welles That Ends Welles – A Film Series
In honor of Orson Welles’ 111th birthday, three classic films featuring the legendary actor, director, writer, and producer: first, perhaps the single most critically acclaimed film of all time; then a film noir voted by the British Film Institute as the greatest British film of all time; and ending with yet another all-time classic film noir, infamously mangled by studio meddling and only restored to be in line with Welles’ vision after he had been dead for over a decade.
May 4: Citizen Kane (1941)
May 18: Touch of Evil (1958)
2nd Floor Events Room -- Downtown Huntsville Public Library
Questions: askus@hmcpl.org