Producer Filip Jan Rymsza at the Lost Transmissions screening at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, April 28, 2019 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)
Lost Transmissions — producer Filip Jan Rymsza’s first release since The Other Side of the Wind — had its world premiere today at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The evening screening took place at the School of Visual Arts theater.
The film, which was written and directed by Katherine O’Brien, stars Simon Pegg as a respected record producer who has lapsed on his medication for schizophrenia. Friends, led by Juno Temple, track him down as he outruns delusions through the glamour and grit of Los Angeles.
Its first review came from The Hollywood Reporter, which stated “Lost Transmissions tells its story without engaging with foolish cliches about creativity and madness.”
Rymsza spent nine years working to secure the necessary permissions from the Boushehri heirs, Oja Kodar and Beatrice Welles to complete The Other Side of the Wind. He has another movie in post-production, Valley of the Gods with John Malkovich. An additional project, The Beauty of Sharks, is also in the works.
Frank Marshall, who produced The Other Side of the Wind with Rymsza for Netflix, followed the Orson Welles project with a pair of documentaries: The People’s Fighters: Teofilo Stevenson and the Legend of Cuban Boxing and The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash. He is at work on future installments in the Jurassic World and Indiana Jones franchises.
The Other Side of the Wind was shown at the Venice, Telluride and New York film festivals last fall before its streaming debut on Netflix on November 2.
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