Welles filming Wind 1970

[Tony]

This has probably been noted before, but here's a link to a little memoir of working with Welles, in 1970:

http://www.nsnews.com/issues99/w020899/welles.html

[Fat Annie]

someone posting on the Old Board as "Lee Desmond" wrote the following,

"Some collegues of mine in the film research department at UCLA have heard that THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND will be released before the year is over. The only unknown question is, 'When?' "

Is there any basis to this posting, or is this, like most everything else there, not to be taken seriously ?

[TheMcGuffin]

Fat Annie....this is mostly was in reference to Showtime's former plans to complete the project. If it is in reference to this then it is (was) true. Showtime was going to complete the project but it fell through when Beatrice Welles, his daugther, treatened suit. There are bunch of old posts on the subject, but i can't remember them off the top of my head.

Rob

[maxrael]

so the cycle goes:

1 - Wind in need of completion, wellesfans around the world remain hopeful
2 - a financier is found to pay for completion, wellesfans become optimistic
3 - Beatrice threatens court action (despite alledgedly not being in a position to win)
4 - rather than risk an expensive court case financer drops project - mass dissapointment and depression for wellesfans everywhere... before gradually returning to step 1


yet Peter Boganovich said: (from http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/45/welles.html )

I can’t tell you who,” says Bogdanovich, “but there’s an American company that for the last few years—with my assistance—has been negotiating the extraordinarily complicated rights situation. [That situation involves] Oja Kodar, who was Orson’s partner on the picture and owned Orson’s side of it after he died; the Iranian brother-in-law of the Shah of Iran, who owned the other half of it… and the Orson Welles estate, which controls the right of publicity and so on. Those three factions have been negotiating for about three years, and I would say they’re now almost all in the same ballpark. So it may happen in the next six months to a year. Once it’s resolved, it’ll take probably a year to finish it.

Isn't the "Orson Welles estate" what Beatrice calls herself?
If so then PB is stating that the estate is being involved in the various deals that Beatrice has been allegedly squashing...

or am i being stupid? (don't answer that!)

atb,
max!

[ToddBaesen]

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Here's an interesting excerpt from the OSOTW script. It is apparently at the birthday party for Jake Hannaford, and here he is talking to his old friend, the German actress Zarah Valeska and seems to obliquely acknowledge that he often seems to destroy the talent that he has discovered and nurtured.

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Jake Hannaford was a vagabond... He worked for Hollywood but he took his cameras around the world... When he didn't find himself in the tropical jungles, the icy tundras, or a country where it was hunting season, the place where he felt most "at home" was in Spain.

Jake's face is pale and his eyes are glazed with liquor. He's not drunk, but he's been drinking heavily.


JAKE
The Medusa's eye. Know what I mean?
Whatever I look upon finally dies
under my gaze. The Medusa's eye.
Yeah. Somebody once told me about
that. Maybe it's true. The eye behind
the camera. Maybe it's an evil eye at
that. There were some Berbers once up
in the Atlas Mountains that wouldn't
let me even point a camera at them.
They think it dries up something in the
soul. Who knows? Maybe it can. Aim too
long at something. Stare too hard...
Drain out the virtue... Suck out the
living juices. The girls and boys,
even the places. I've shot 'em all.
Shot 'em dead. Whiskey, Mother?



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