Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind

[Boom]

It's finally happening. Give it to me.

 

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[Breogan]

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https://www.thewrap.com/orson-welles-other-side-of-the-wind-lost-film-trailer-video/

Welles began filming the project in 1970 with cast members John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Oja Kodar. Financial issues arose, and the production stretched for years and was ultimately never completed or released.

More than a thousand reels of film negatives were stored in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as Welles’s production manager during his initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza pushed forward to complete the film.

“The Other Side of the Wind” tells the story of director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (Huston), who heads back to Los Angeles after years of self-exile in Europe to complete his comeback movie.

The Wrap - https://www.thewrap.com/will-netflix-finally-finish-orson-welles-film-the-other-side-of-the-wind/

The movie is about a director named Jake Hannaford, who was returning from semi-exile to make his final film, also called “The Other Side of the Wind.” Welles began filming it in 1970 and claimed it wasn’t semi-autobiographical. John Huston starred as Hannaford.

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There’s been a long history of trying to get the film released, with legal, financial, and creative battles delaying the fight. Many directors were approached to work on it, including George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, but both declined, saying they wouldn’t know what to do with the material.

A fight between rights holders, including Welles’ daughter Beatrice Welles and his longtime collaborator Oja Kodar, kept all 1,083 reels of film in a warehouse for years until Royal Road Entertainment announced it had bought up the rights in 2014.

Frank Marshall, who was a line producer on the film, and Peter Bogdanovich, who played a supporting role, were tasked with helping to complete and release it. Affonso Gonçalves (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) had been hired to assemble it. Their plan was to release the film on May 6, 2015, which coincided with the 100th anniversary of the director’s birth.

According to an Indiegogo campaign set up to finance the effort, about 40 minutes of the film was cut by Welles himself. He also left detailed notes on his vision, which would allow Bogdanovich, Marshall, and others to complete it in his image.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am interested in this project. Was the actual filming of the movie completed? I know post-production never had been finished until this campaign.

 

[Persona]

This is on Netflix now and, uh, it might be my second favorite Welles after The Trial.

Simply brilliant stuff, so dense and yet so clear at the same time (enormous props to the post-production team, my God, they knocked it way out of the park). Hypnotic and dizzying. The raw materials--you can feel their energy: it's insane in a way that only genius can be. The treatment of the footage is gorgeous. The editing team managed some level of coherence without losing that energy, at all. The sound team did exemplary work. The score by Legrand is the best score I've heard all year. The sum is something that is both deeply sad and viciously funny.

Wowzers.

 

[terry78]

Yeah I need to check this out.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am going to watch it this week. Maybe tonight or tomorrow. Currently, Citizen Kane is my favorite Welles movie. I know, I know, really going outside the box on that view

 

[Persona]

A new Orson freakin' Welles is out on Netflix and it's awesome (imo, anyways) and there are 6 posts in this thread.

That makes me sad, guys.

 

[Spider-Fan]

This was an interesting movie. It's one I sort of feel I need to watch again to adequately examine its layers.

 

[Persona]

Upon rewatch I think this is a top hundred movie for me.

Wrote about it at length for Paste:

Orson Welles Ends Himself

 

[a user]

This was an interesting movie. It's one I sort of feel I need to watch again to adequately examine its layers.

I too need to watch it a second time.