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Citizen Kane , Touch of Evil , F for Fake and other beloved Welles classics are showing at the Egyptian starting May 5 to honor his great legacy. On Saturday May 6, 2017 – the 102nd anniversary of Orson Welles’s birth - the exceptional program includes The Merchant of Venice , his lost film from the late 1960s, which has been painstakingly restored and presented by Stefan Droessler of the Munich Film Museum. Screening with it will be other mesmerizing fragments of such incomplete Welles films as King Lear , The Deep , and The Dreamers , also preserved and curated by Mr. Droessler. Orson Welles was not a patient man, not in the “win a few, lose a few” sense that a system such as Hollywood demands. “I’m a mud turtle,” he liked to say, meaning he could go for years, even decades, even half a lifetime, staying true to this or that project. Upon his death in 1985, there remained at least six feature films in various states of progress ( Don  Quixote, The Deep, The Merchant of Venice,...