
SCREENING
The Magnificent Ambersons
Sunday, Feb 9 at 2:00 p.m.
Location: Bartos Screening Room
Part of Snubbed Forever
Snubbed Forever: Joseph Cotten
Dir. Orson Welles. 1942, 88 mins. U.S. DCP. With Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter. Welles’s exquisite, richly cynical adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about a turn-of-the-century family unwilling to change with the times was famously snatched from Welles’s hands by RKO, re-edited and completed with a new ending. Astonishingly, the film, made just one year after Citizen Kane, remains, despite the tampering, one of the greatest Hollywood movies ever made, a ruthless portrait of an intractable, tradition-minded young man named George Amberson Minafer, whose vice grip on his family leads to its downfall. Welles standby Cotten gives a gloriously moving and humane performance as the motorcar manufacturer seen by George as an unwanted interloper. Nearly every shot in Welles’s film pushes the cinematic medium into new expressive territory.
Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.