For those who missed the New York Film Festival, the Big Apple is offering another chance to see back-to-back screenings of They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead and The Other Side of the Wind, along with talks offered by the filmmakers.
The Museum of Modern Art is showing both films with a post screening talks on Sunday, November 11. (Tickets for each film go on same on October 28.)
Following the 2 p.m. showing of They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, director Morgan Neville will talk about the documentary, which chronicles the making of The Other Side of the Wind and Welles’ final years.
MoMA will screen the The Other Side of the Wind. at 5 p.m. It will be followed by talk given by producer Filip Jan Rymsza.
The showings are part of MoMA’s The Contenders 2018 series, which recognizes “Influential, innovative films made in the past 12 months that we believe will stand the test of time.”
Both films will debut on Netflix on November 2 and stream to 137 million subscribers in 190 countries worldwide.
The Other Side of the Wind takes place at the 70th birthday party of maverick director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (John Huston), who is struggling to complete his comeback film during the rise of New Hollywood. Attending the party are successful young directors, like Brooks Otterlake (Peter Bogdanovich), hangers-on and critics. Hannaford dies at the conclusion of the party. Welles’ movie recounts Hannaford’s final hours using a mix of 16mm and 35mm color and black-and-white film shot at the party, along with scenes from his unfinished movie, which stars Oja Kodar and Bob Random.
Welles shot The Other Side of the Wind between 1970 and 1976. It remained unedited and unreleased until 2018 when it was completed for Netflix by Bogdanovich, Rymsza, Marshall, and Academy Award winning editor Bob Murawski.
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