Mirroring the unveiling of The Other Side of the Wind two years ago, the Orson Welles directed documentary Hopper/Welles will be screened at the 58th New York Film festival just weeks after its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Its inclusion at NYFF58 was announced today by organizers.
Comprised of previously unknown interview footage uncovered and assembled by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski, Hopper/Welles captures a conversation shot during The Other Side of the Wind between the Citizen Kane filmmaker and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper. According to Welles’ youngest daughter, Beatrice, the black and white footage her father shot in November 1970 was intended for a never-produced documentary on Hopper.
Hopper/Welles will be shown September 7-9 in Venice, while the New York Film Festival is set for September 17 through October 11.
The overwhelming majority of the two-camera, black and white footage by Gary Graver has never been publicly seen before. It was among the 1,083 reels of The Other Side of the Wind footage that was inventoried and scanned by producers Rymsza and Frank Marshall in 2017.
Very brief snippets from the November 1970 shoot with Hopper can be seen in The Other Side of the Wind and the Morgan Neville documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead.
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