Other Side of the Wind
An anarchic-feeling but tautly scripted settling of scores-with Hollywood, history, and, above all, himself.
The Other Side of the Wind
In 1970, legendary director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of luminaries that included John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched to 1976 and soon gained industry-wide notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as a production manager on Wind during in its initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have Welles’s vision completed more than 30 years after his death.
Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and assembled by a technical team including Oscar-winning editor Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker), The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (John Huston), who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. A satire of the classic studio system as well as the new "easy riders and raging bulls" who were shaking things up at the time, Welles’s final film is both a fascinating time capsule of a now-distant era in movie making as well as the long-awaited “new” work from an indisputable master of his craft.
Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and assembled by a technical team including Oscar-winning editor Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker), The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (John Huston), who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. A satire of the classic studio system as well as the new "easy riders and raging bulls" who were shaking things up at the time, Welles’s final film is both a fascinating time capsule of a now-distant era in movie making as well as the long-awaited “new” work from an indisputable master of his craft.
Genre
Comedy,
Drama,
Auteur Cinema
Runtime
122
Language
English
Director
Orson Welles
Writer(s)
Oja Kodar,
Orson Welles
Cast
John Huston,
Peter Bogdanovich,
Oja Kodar,
Robert Random,
Edmond O’Brien,
Cameron Mitchell,
Mercedes McCambridge,
Susan Strasberg,
Paul Stewart,
Dennis Hopper
FEATURED REVIEW
Stuart KlawansThe Nation
n its happiest and saddest event, this year’s New York Film Festival brought to the screen something like Orson Welles’s 'The Other Side of the Wind.' This was the film that Welles photographed almost in entirety, working on and off from 1970 into 1976, and edited in a partial, preliminary way, only ...
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NoHo 7 11.02.18 - 11.08.18
Glendale 11.09.18 - 11.15.18
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