OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND - John Huston on making the film

[jollytinker]

will anyone posting here, who attend the festival, make available a copy of their copy of the script to us poor saps who are not able to attend ....

[Gordon]

A thought on 'The Other Side of the Wind'

It is of artistic and historic importance, irrespective of its commercial potential.

Perhaps donors could contribute the funds to a non-profit for the film's acquisition and completion, thereby earning a tax deduction.

[TonyR]

I have been a member of this board for over two years and am not normally 'the sort' to write in these things. However I am now.....

I am hardly ever an idealist, a wishful thinker or an emotional type (being as I am a radical deconstructionist!), however I cannot help but get 'tearful' at the irony of Beatrice Welles preventing this film from being completed.

Everybody knows the privations incurred by Orson Welles in pursuit of these films. So how ironic of course then that profit and voice would seem to be the 'steerer' in her comportment and relationship to this body of work (the dismembodied body and remains, albeit symbolic, of her once 'present' father). The privaledge of biology.


Gary Graver, Ola Kodar and Peter Bogdanovich are of course not tied to this world. Some event will of course take them away at some point. The film then of course no doubt will become a work of speculative archaeology at some point and will be 'finished' or combined, sometime/somehow.

I take great pleasure in the 'somehow' of the imperfect Quixote that I have in my possession, but when the somehow of 'The Other Side of the Wind' is an almost complete complete (with of course all the authorial problems that this concept carries with it) I cannot believe or accept (mentally) this 'gymnastics of irony'.

I normally hate glib phrases but sometimes they do have the effect of conveying a disbelief within their quotidiennes. But it does look like the apple really does fall far from the tree in this case Beatrice.

Mmmm, I think of that 'making of the restoring' documentary on the Othello DVD in tree-surrounded soaplike musical lighting and speaking of her passion for her father's work.

Money and purses and not family ties....

Tony Richards
An Orson Welles 'fan'

[Eve_h]

new hope - once again - for a release next year? - here's a link to a Timesonline article

The resurrections of Orson Welles

[Glenn Anders]

Good news, Eve.

Another ally has come on the field.

Danny Huston's career languished after his father's death, but he has been getting better reviews recently, no more so than "the best friend" in the highly acclaimed movie version of John LeCarre's The Constant Gardner.

Perhaps, he will be able to add a little helpful awareness of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, as he makes his round of the talk shows.

Can't hurt.

Glenn

[NoFake]

Jeff, is there any way you can link the TOSOTW threads that have broken out separately under "Film" and "General Discussion"? It would make following the TOSOTW discussion easier.

[Wilson]

That's a good idea, and given that this thread is already so long, let's close this one down. I will keep it pinned to the main Film page so people can easily access it.

[ToddBaesen]

This thread has some of the details and answers to questions people on the other thread have asked recently.

But to go over some of them again: The footage Gary Graver had was nowhere near finished and he certainly never said it was "nearly completed." He said he had about 40 minutes of footage that Welles had edited, and that Welles had nearly completed shooting the movie.

Looking at the Bogdanovich interview, it's quite obvious the movie needs quite a bit of work to be shown still.