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At Brattle, the deeper Welles

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19910510
Author:Jay Carr, Globe Staff

There's more to Orson Welles than "Citizen Kane." Starting tonight with a double bill of "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942) and "Journey Into Fear" (1943), the Brattle Theater in Cambridge will bring his range and scope into perspective in a series of Friday-Saturday retrospectives. Although "Kane" always places ahead of "The Magnificent Ambersons" on all-time best lists, Welles' second film has far more depth beneath its deceptively languorous pacing. And it's more than nostalgia that gives it its impact.

Welles turned Booth Tarkington's novel into a noble lament for the vanished ...

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