With its bi-monthly members-only Arthouse Film Night Series, the Bosque Film Society presents Orson Welles’ 1941 classic mystery drama CITIZEN KANE May 10 at The Cliftex in Clifton

By BRETT VOSS

Bosque Film Society Founding Board President

For its fourth 2022 film series presentation, the Bosque Film Society cordially invites all members to attend its members-only ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10 at The Cliftex Theatre in Clifton.

Widely considered the greatest movie of all-time, Bosque Film Society members will be treated to the American drama CITIZEN KANE, produced, directed and starring Orson Welles, with the screenplay co-written with Herman J. Mankiewicz, featuring an introductory presentation by Bosque Film Society board member Philip Vasquez.

For 50 consecutive years, it stood at number one in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound decennial poll of critics, and it topped the American Film Institute’s 100 Years … 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winning for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles, Citizen Kane remains praised for Gregg Toland’s cinematography, Robert Wise’s editing, Bernard Herrmann’s music, and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting.

The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters’ own lives.

The ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT SERIES represents one of two film series as the society now offer free classic movies to its members every month.

Upcoming FILM APPRECIATION NIGHT presentations will include:

June 14 — Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid (1969), 110 min;

Aug. 9 — All That Jazz (1979), 123 min;

Oct. 11 — Out of Africa (1985), 161 min;

Dec. 13 — Christmas Party: White Christmas (1954), 120 min.

Upcoming ARTHOUSE FILM NIGHT presentations will include:

July 12 — The Seventh Seal (1957);

Sept. 13 — Dr. Strangelove (1964);

Nov. 8 – Day for Night (1973).

Since this will be a private showing, BYOB will be allowed, and the theatre concession stand will be open for purchases. Although the event will be closed to the public, those wishing to become Bosque Film Society members Tuesday night will be admitted. So if you have any friends interested, be sure to bring them with you.

For more information about joining the Bosque Film Society’s non-profit efforts to support The Cliftex Theatre, the longest continuously-operating movie house in Texas, showing films since 1916, visit our website at: www.bosquefilm.com.