By RAY KELLY Footage Orson Welles shot of Dennis Hopper five decades ago was earmarked for more than just a cameo in The Other Side of the Wind — it was also intended for a planned documentary on the Easy Rider filmmaker, who Welles had befriended. Producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski uncovered […]
By RAY KELLY Imagine eavesdropping on a suppertime conversation between a maverick filmmaker who was frequently at odds with the major studios and a young director at the forefront of the New Hollywood movement. Cineastes will rejoice in learning that extensive footage of the November 1970 meeting of Citizen Kane creator Orson Welles and Easy Rider director […]
A new podcast series based on the unpublished Polly Platt memoir It Was Worth It delves into her involvement in the The Other Side of the Wind and the relationship between Orson Welles and his collaborator, Oja Kodar. The multi-episode Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman is part of the You Must Remember This podcasts produced by Karina Longworth. It details how Platt was […]
Film historian Joseph McBride recently took part in a remote video talk with members of Milwaukee Film. McBride, author of three books on Welles, discussed the 1946 thriller The Stranger, as well as The Other Side of the Wind, which was shot in the 1970s and completed in 2018. McBride was a cast member and […]
Dennis Hopper makes an all-too-brief appearance in Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, but the relationship between the two filmmakers and their careers interested an Australian researcher. A paper, The Friendship Between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper: A Study of Similarities Between Two Hollywood Exiles, was recently published by Joanna Elena Batsakis at […]
By MIKE TEAL Fifty years ago today, on February 9th, 1970, the renowned Italian arthouse filmmaker Michaelangelo Antonioni’s first American film, Zabriskie Point, was released. It was a story about two young counter-culture radicals who steal an airplane and then travel to the desert to escape. Four years earlier, Antonioni’s first English-language film, Blow-Up, […]
Netflix announced at the Sundance Film Festival today that several of its prestige titles will be released on physical media this year. Sadly, Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind was not among the movies mentioned. In a social media posting, Netflix revealed that the Criterion Collection will issue The Irishman, Marriage Story, American […]
Well, 2020 has just started and there is already something for Orson Welles fans to look forward to. Peter Tonguette, who wrote the highly informative Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews with His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians back in 2007, will publish Picturing Peter Bogdanovich: My Conversations with the New Hollywood Director this summer. Coming from University Press […]
The Other Side of the Wind found itself on close to fifty Best of the Year lists in the weeks following its release in fall 2018. A year later, Orson Welles’ posthumous offering has been hailed by a dozen media outlets as among the Best Films of the 2010s. The Other Side of the […]
Film scholar Massimiliano Studer published a paper in Italy today examining how the creation of the Motion Picture Association of America changed the climate in Hollywood and led Orson Welles to explore sexuality more explicitly with The Other Side of the Wind. “I started this essay during the writing of my paper presented to a […]
The Other Side of the Wind will get a special screening Wednesday, December 11, at Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona with the film library’s director, noted Orson Welles scholar Esteve Riambau, providing an introduction. It is fitting that the film finally get a big screen showing in Welles’ beloved Spain since the story’s roots date […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Marco Vanelli, looks at religious themes in the film. Wellesnet would like to thank Mr. Vanelli for his generosity in allowing […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film critic Alessandro Aniballi looks at the film and Welles’ treatment of death.) D for Death By ALESSANDRO ANIBALLI The Other Side of […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Massimiliano Studer, co-founder of Formacinema, and author of Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles, looks […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film scholar Alberto Anile offers his views on the merits and compromises of the finished film.) Merits and compromises of a reconstruction […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. Cabiria has kindly allowed us to run English translations of several essays. In this installment, Wellesnet’s Ray Kelly shares his thoughts.) Reflections on the […]
The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of the release of The Other of the Wind. Welles’ long-unfinished 1970s film was completed last year by producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza, executive producer Peter Bogdanovich and editor Bob Murawski. […]
By NICOLAS CICCONE Orson Welles’s last completed film, The Other Side of the Wind, began as a story set not near Hollywood in the U.S., but instead around the bullfighting rings of Spain. Welles largely outlined this version of the story in a 1963 Albert Maysles film Orson Welles in Spain, which can be found […]
(Updated November 21: The HPA awarded the editing honor to Fred Raskin for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.) _____ The Hollywood Professional Association has nominated Bob Murawski and the late Orson Welles for its annual award for best editing of a feature film for their work on The Other Side of the Wind. The […]
Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) weighed in on The Other Side of the Wind in a nearly five-minute YouTube video from Trailers From Hell. Dante is well-versed in the project having been a friend of the late cinematographer Gary Graver and worked with The Other Side of the Wind actor Joseph McBride (Mr. Pister) […]
