Thanks and many kudos to Lamont Cranston (The Shadow Knows) for posting the links to these two fantastic scenes of Paul Mazursky and Henry Jaglom from The Other Side of the Wind, on the Wellesnet message board. They are now available for viewing on YouTube. Also a special thanks to Shoudriot for posting these videos […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH Here are Peter Bogdanovich’s comments regarding the status of completing The Other Side of the Wind as recorded in San Francisco on March 9, 2008. Following the interview, I have included the opening narration from Orson Welles original script for The Other Side of the Wind. Welles originally intended to speak the […]
By Lawrence French Given the primal place both Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway hold as titans of American culture, it seems strange that so little has been written about their memorable meeting to work on Joris Ivens The Spanish Earth. Perhaps this is because so little seems to be known about what actually took place, […]
Craig Weinstein and Drew Reiber, two Wellesnet correspondents in Florida wrote to report that Peter Bogdanovich appeared at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando last night (March 30th) and announced that Showtime’s long simmering deal to finance the completion of The Other Side of the Wind has finally been consummated. Apparently the contract was as […]
Peter Tonguette’s book about Welles, Orson Welles Remembered, has just seen publication, and he sent along the following about the book and why he put it together. – Jeff Wilson _________ By PETER TONGUETTE My fascination with Orson Welles began when I saw the restored Touch of Evil in December 1998. I was 15 at […]
BY LAWRENCE FRENCH David Thomson mentions the recent conversation I had with him in a San Francisco bookstore�(aboutThe Other Side of the Wind)�in his Nov 7th piece�appearing�in The Guardian. In it, he argues�for�cutting back on the glut of film festivals�so we don’t have to make all those demanding choices about�which movies we�can�now actually see, instead of […]
Here’s a very nice piece on OSOTW featuring comments from John Huston, Susan Strasberg and Gary Graver, written for the March, 1976 issue of AFTER DARK, a New York based magazine that billed itself as “The National Magazine of Entertainment.” *** ORSON WELLES AND FIVE YEARS OF “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND” By VIOLA […]
One of the saddest things to realize about Orson Welles late career was the lack of support he received not only from studios, but from the “bankable major stars.” One only has to recall the story of Welles trying to cast any of the above actors for the leading role in The Big Brass Ring, […]
After The Other Side of the Wind hadbeen shooting for only a few months, Charles Higgham, whoseerror-ridden book on Welles hadrecently been published, wrote this short piece about the filming of OSOTW. It appeared in The New York Times on January 31, 1971, and since Mr. Higgham’s piece gets almost 100 % of his facts […]
Shortly after Welles had begun filming The Other Side of the Wind, he published this piece in Look magazine (Nov. 3, 1970), about the rise in prominence of young directors who were now seen as the driving force behind Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits. Films like Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider and Paul Mazursky’s Bob & Carol […]
Thanks to Colin Hand for sending along this link to a nice interview with Frank Marshall about his latest movie, Eight Below, which also covers Marshall’s long association with Peter Bogdanovich. However the highlight for Welles fans is a tidbit about Marshall’s ongoing involvement in producingThe Other Side of The Wind, which is apparently now […]
An essay on the making of Orson Welles “The Other Side of the Wind” can be found on the Legacy portion of Wellesnet. Please visit the “TOSOTW” page here.
