The 58th edition of the New York Film Festival will present a series of free online chats with filmmakers later this month, including a talk featuring the team behind Hopper/Welles.
On Tuesday, September 29, at 2 p.m., NYFF58 will offer an online talk focusing on two festival offerings: Hopper/Welles and Raul Ruiz’ The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror. ” In this discussion, the resurrectors of both films — producer Filip Jan Rymzsa and editor Bob Murawski in the case of Hopper/Welles, and Valeria Sarmiento, the filmmaker, editor, and widow of Ruiz — will focus on fashioning a completed film out of fragments left behind by an iconic filmmaker.
The live talks are available for free and will be conducted via Zoom webinar, according to IndieWire, which first reported the news.
Free registration is required to attend. Sign up at the link on each event page. Registrants will receive a confirmation email with a link to tune into the Zoom webinar.
During the live talk, attendees can ask questions of Rymsza and Murawski.
Talks will be recorded and later shared on Film at Lincoln Center’s YouTube channel.
Hopper/Welles will get its first theatrical showing in the United States at the Queens Drive-in on Friday, Sept. 18, at 8 p.m. In addition to the Queens screening, Hopper/Welles will be available for viewing via streaming from September 28 at 8 p.m. through October 3 at 8 p.m. (Eastern Time).
Comprised of previously unknown interview footage uncovered and assembled by Rymsza and Murawski, Hopper/Welles captures a November 1970 conversation shot during The Other Side of the Wind between Orson Welles and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper. Two cameras filmed the approximately two-and-a-half-hour conversation, which has been trimmed to 130 minutes.
Hopper/Welles had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival earlier this month.
The Wellesnet review of Hopepr/Welles can be found at wellesnet.com/hopper-welles-review-wellesnet and an interview with Rymsza and Murawski at wellesnet.com/inside-hopper-welles
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