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DIRECTOR AND ADAPTER: ORSON WELLES
THE BOTTOM LINE: Eccentric and wonderful, like its creator, this 1952 work ought to trigger further restorations of neglected Welles films
As with Orson Welles' Halloween 1938 broadcast of "War of The Worlds," panic erupted in some quarters before listeners realized it was all an April Fool's Day joke.
The time is half-past the Apocalypse in the inventive French comedy DELICATESSEN, but the setting has the look of Gallic movies from the grungy- romantic '30s. Everything else is, well, different. Meat is scarce here, so the piggy butcher serves chopped humans to his customers -- who may soon be...
Chris Welles Quartet--Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge. Friday, Feb. 21. Free. 349-4039.