"Henry Jaglom and Paul Mazursky directed by Orson Welles"

[RayKelly]

It seems that the buzz surrounding the Jaglom provided footage has alerted Oja Kodar and company to the existence of YouTube. It will be interesting to see whether "One Man Band" footage and other clips disappear too.

[Colmena]

Ray,

Dunno if this is common knowledge here nor not:
One Man Band in its entirety is found on the supplemental disc for the Criterion edition of "F for Fake."
(I'll be watching it today.)

[jbrooks]

I just read Henry Jaglom's interview in World Cinema Paradise. http://worldcinemaparadise.com/2015/01/ ... on-welles/ I was surprised by his comment that he's "skeptical" about how the various elements of "The Other Side of the Wind" will all fit together. In 1987, at the Boston Film Festival, I asked Jaglom (privately) point blank whether "The Other Side of the Wind" was any good. He did not hesitate in replying as follows: "It's the greatest thing I've ever seen." As Barbara Leaming recounts in her book, Jaglom was active in trying to get the film completed in the early 80s -- so his opinion was presumably an informed one.

[tonyw]

I have a feeling that Hollywood pressure may have something to do with this. Conformity is now the norm. A friend had to drop a book about J.J.Abrams when many people who worked with him were hesitant of anseering emails for frear of upsetting the "great man." Even independents like Jaglom have to toe the line in corporate Hollyood.

[RayKelly]

jbrooks, I took his comment as being skeptical that this will finally happen.
He has to be out-of-the-loop regarding the project. I cannot imagine he and Bogdanovich are that tight after the book.

[jbrooks]

Ray,

You might be right about the subject of Jaglom's skepticism, but I don't think so. He doesn't say it in the context of a discussion of the legal entanglements related to the film. Rather, the comment comes immediately following his statement that, from viewing the workprint material leaked on Youtube, "[i]t was hard to tell what [the film] would look like if somehow all put together." I can't reconcile it being "hard to tell what it would look like" with it also being "the best thing I've ever seen."

JBrooks