Criterion Channel set to launch in spring 2019

Good news for those lamenting that Filmstruck will be going dark on November 29 there is good news to report. The Criterion Collection team has decided to carry on and launch  the Criterion Channel as a freestanding streaming service in spring 2019. The new service will be wholly owned and controlled by the Criterion Collection. […]

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Netflix executives gave ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ the break it needed for 40 years

By RAY KELLY Throughout his lifetime, Orson Welles often found himself at odds with the suits, the powerful studio executives who recut his movies and assailed his character. So, it’s ironic that three decades after Welles’ death, it was Netflix executives who stepped up and gave one of his unfinished movies the sweetest deal since George […]

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Bob Murawski details the editing of ‘The Other Side of the Wind’

By RAY KELLY There have been only a few people to share a screen card with Orson Welles: Cinematographer Gregg Toland and writer Herman Mankiewicz easily come to mind, and, now, editor Bob Murawski. Best known for editing Sam Raimi’s blockbuster Spider-Man trilogy and his Oscar-winning work on The Hurt Locker, Murawski also has a deep appreciation for […]

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‘The Other Side of the Wind’ debuts worldwide Friday on Netflix, dozen theaters

(Updated to include second week in Los Angeles) ______ Finally, Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind will make its highly-anticipated debut Friday, November 2, on Netflix. It will be available to 137 million Netflix subscribers in 190 countries, giving Welles the mass audience he longed for in life. It will be streamed alongside Morgan […]

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‘Other Side of the Wind’ documentarian Morgan Neville: My North Star was ‘F for Fake’

By RAY KELLY Oscar winning documentarian Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Won’t You Be My Neighbor) is a self-professed Orson Welles fanatic, and the opportunity to explore a misunderstood chapter in the late filmmaker’s life proved hard to resist They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead offers an insightful and highly entertaining look into The […]

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Behind-the-scenes on the completion of Orson Welles’ ‘The Other Side of the Wind’

By RAY KELLY On a sunny Monday afternoon a week before Christmas, Peter Bogdanovich, Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall gathered in an editing suite at Tribeca West in Los Angeles to view the progress made on the completion of The Other Side of  the Wind. As his colleagues arrived, Rymsza explained that editor Bob Murawski […]

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‘The Other Side of the Wind’ first theatrical run announced

Update: The Other Side of the Wind  will also run at LAEMMLE NOHO outside Los Angeles. An updated list of screenings may be found at  https://www.wellesnet.com/festival-screenings-other-side-wind-love-me-dead/ ____ The IFC Center in New York’s West Village is the first the theater offering a week-long run of The Other Side of the Wind on November 2, the […]

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Netflix touts Orson Welles, ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ in awards season push

Netflix has officially kicked off is award season push, suggesting Orson Welles and The Other Side of the Wind for special recognition in 11 categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Actors John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich are also suggested as worthy of consideration, as well as cinematographer Gary Graver […]