The Italian film journal Bianco e Nero (Black and White) has published a special issue looking at the role streaming services like Netflix play in the future of cinema. The latest issue of the oldest film publication in Italy includes Rewriting the Wind, an illuminating piece by author Alberto Anile (Orson Welles in Italy) […]
IT: Chapter 2, the followup to most successful horror movie of all time, arrives in theaters today. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader are the stars, but Wellesians will want to look for a cameo by Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich, who played director Brooks Otterlake in The Other Side of the Wind, again plays a […]
By RAY KELLY Maybe it was kismet, fate or divine intervention, but it took four decades for the perfect moment to arrive to complete Hollywood’s most famous unfinished movie, The Other Side of the Wind. That moment, according to the film’s post-production team, came in the form of a generous, supportive backer; state-of-the-art technology; and […]
By RAY KELLY Santa Claus will not be leaving a The Other Side of the Wind Blu-ray/DVD underneath the Christmas tree this year. Producer Filip Jan Rymsza told supporters of a 2015 crowdfunding effort in a posting today that a promised “perk” of a Blu-ray/DVD of the Orson Welles film, as well as as a […]
By RAY KELLY Throughout Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, leading man John Dale never utters a single line of dialogue. But Bob Random, the Canadian actor who played Dale, is hardly silent as the one-year anniversary of the film’s debut at the Venice Film Festival approaches. He said his emotions upon watching […]
Nearly a year after its world premiere in Venice, The Other Side of the Wind is still popping up at film festivals around the globe. The Orson Welles feature will be an official selection at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and perhaps the most […]
Netflix is pitching the Morgan Neville documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead for Emmy Award consideration. The entertaining documentary looks at the making of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind. There has been no indication yet that the streaming giant will pitch the Welles feature or Ryan Suffern’s informative documentary short, A Final […]
With the kind permission of Julie Huntsinger, executive director of the Telluride Film Festival, and co-founder Tom Luddy, Wellesnet is delighted to present a 30-minute video of the panel discussion that accompanied the North American premiere of The Other Side of the Wind on September 1, 2018. The panel features three original crew members who […]
The late Michel Legrand has been honored by the Union des Compositeurs de Musiques de Films (Union of Composers of Film Music) for his score to The Other Side of the Wind His music for the Orson Welles film was selected as best feature film score by UCMF members over fellow nominees Girl (Valentin Hadjadj), L’Île […]
Daniel Saxlid, supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer for The Other Side of the Wind, explains the role iZotope RX software played in restoring the film’s dialogue in a new video short, Restoring the Audio of Orson Welles’ Final Film. With some of the original audio elements missing from the footage Welles shot in 1974, […]
The movie is being screened as part of the Wisconsin Film Festival.
The much-anticipated The Other Side of the Wind poster for crowdfunding contributors is in production with delivery planned in the coming weeks. The full-color poster is a perk for some of the 2,859 Indiegogo contributors who raised $406,605 in spring 2015 toward the completion of the Orson Welles movie. The movie was completed by Netflix […]
By RAY KELLY Orson Welles films have had their share of memorable, offbeat characters: Romy Schneider as the web-fingered Leni in The Trial, Dennis Weaver’s jittery motel night manager in Touch of Evil and Mischa Auer’s flea circus trainer in Mr. Arkadin. In The Other Side of the Wind, audiences were introduced to the Ice […]
The Other Side of the Wind soundtrack released today includes about 23 minutes of bonus material not heard in the recently completed Orson Welles film. Before his untimely passing on January 26, composer Michel Legrand personally chose the selections and sequencing for the soundtrack album, which was issued by La-La Land Records. (The compact disc is […]
The late Michel Legrand’s original score for The Other Side of the Wind will be released on Tuesday, February 5. La-La Land Records announced the forthcoming release on its Twitter and Facebook accounts today, though no details have been posted on the label’s official website. The Other Side of the Wind producer Frank Marshall revealed last week in a […]
By ETAN ROSENBLOOM ASCAP Director & Deputy Editor, Marketing & Communications “It’s alright to borrow from each other. What we must never do is borrow from ourselves.” That deathless quote comes from fictional director Jake Hannaford in The Other Side of the Wind, the “new” film from revered film auteur Orson Welles, released via Netflix […]
The National Society of Film Critics bestowed its Film Heritage Award today on the recently completed The Other Side of Wind. Founded in 1966, the National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics. Its Film Heritage Award was given to “the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians and […]
Upon its completion, Orson Welles’ legendary The Other Side of the Wind has been lauded by critics worldwide with the movie appearing on more than three dozen Best Films of 2018 lists. The movie, produced by Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza and edited by Bob Murawski, debuted at the Venice Film Festival on August 31. […]
By RAY KELLY The Other Side of the Wind won its first major awards on Sunday as the film’s completion received a special citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Bob Murawski and the late Orson Welles were honored for best editing by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Murawski was warmly congratulated on […]
Composer Michel Legrand performed a selection from his recent score for the Orson Welles film The Other Side of the Wind on Saturday night at the Philharmonie de Paris. The two-hour program was unusual as it was dedicated solely to Legrand’s film scores, a first for a performance by him in Paris. As Legrand and […]
