Orson Welles Cinema - First Boston Film Festival

First Boston Film Festival

Less successful was the Welles' Boston Film Festival (1976), which included such films as Monty Python's Flying Circus' And Now for Something Completely Different and Jacques Rivette's Out One: Spectre. However, according to Welles Cinema staffers, many of the announced films arrived late or never appeared.

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