Hopper/Welles, the documentary created by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski from footage shot by Orson Welles more than 50 years ago, will be shown at IndieLisboa 2021.
It will be shown as part of the Director’s Cut section of IndieLisboa, which runs August 21 to September 6. The Portuguese film festival was founded in 2004.
The movie had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2020 and was subsequently shown at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles and New York Film Festival last year. (There has been no word yet on whether the film will be available on streaming or home video.)
The previously unseen interview footage assembled by The Other Side of the Wind producer Rymsza and editor Murawski captures an engrossing conversation between Welles and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper in November 1970.
The extensive black and white footage shot with two 16mm cameras was meant not merely for Hopper’s cameo in The Other Side of the Wind, but, according to Beatrice Welles, for use in a never-produced, and never publicly discussed, documentary by her father on Hopper.
Two cameras filmed the approximately two-and-a-half-hour conversation, which has been trimmed to 130 minutes. Director of photography Gary Graver shot 13 black and white 16mm rolls and camera operator John Willheim another 11 for a total of 4 hours and 48 minutes of available footage.
HOPPER/WELLES
Director: Orson Welles
Producer: Royal Road Entertainment (Filip Jan Rymsza)
Co-producers: Grindhouse Releasing (Bob Murawski) and Fixafilm (Wojciech Janio)
Executive producers: Jon Anderson, Jonathan Gardner
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Orson Welles with Janice Pennington and Glenn Jacobson
Director of photography: Gary Graver
Cutter: Bob Murawski, a.c.e.
Assistant editor: Dov Samuel
Camera operators: Gary Graver, John Willheim
Assistant camera: Connie Graver
Gaffer: R. Michael Stringer
Sound: Bob Dietz, Jussi Tegelman
Title design: Garson Yu
Running time: 130 minutes
Related content:
Inside ‘Hopper/Welles’ with Filip Jan Rymsza and Bob Murawski
‘Hopper/Welles’ — The Orson Welles film* we never expected (review)
‘Hopper/Welles’ review: ‘I, Hannaford’ vs. Mr. ‘Easy Rider’ Era
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