Ray Kelly, our Wellesnet man in Cambridge sends along this exclusive report on Stefan Drossler’s presentation of The Unknown Orson Welles on December 1, 2008 at the Harvard Film Archive
One of the highlight’s of Gary Graver’s memoir, Making Movies with ORSON WELLES is the inside view it gives us on the making of The Other Side of the Wind. Perhaps the book may finally help to sweep aside the last remaining obstacles and get the Showtime deal to finish the movie back on track. […]
I can hardly be called an unbiased reviewer when it comes to this book, since I contributed an interview with Gary Graver and Oja Kodar that serves as an afterward, but I must say in all candor, I was absolutely delighted when I received a copy of it today. First of all, having talked with […]
Wellesnet contributor Kari Elovuori has sent along a link to a marvelous site he has created as “his own private exercise” which features a welcoming video from Orson Welles, a timeline for The Other Side of the Wind, and best of all, a video that features clips and some great color stills from the film, […]
Thanks and many kudos to Lamont Cranston (The Shadow Knows) for posting the links to these two fantastic scenes of Paul Mazursky and Henry Jaglom from The Other Side of the Wind, on the Wellesnet message board. They are now available for viewing on YouTube. Also a special thanks to Shoudriot for posting these videos […]
By LAWRENCE FRENCH Here are Peter Bogdanovich’s comments regarding the status of completing The Other Side of the Wind as recorded in San Francisco on March 9, 2008. Following the interview, I have included the opening narration from Orson Welles original script for The Other Side of the Wind. Welles originally intended to speak the […]
By Lawrence French Given the primal place both Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway hold as titans of American culture, it seems strange that so little has been written about their memorable meeting to work on Joris Ivens The Spanish Earth. Perhaps this is because so little seems to be known about what actually took place, […]
Craig Weinstein and Drew Reiber, two Wellesnet correspondents in Florida wrote to report that Peter Bogdanovich appeared at the Florida Film Festival in Orlando last night (March 30th) and announced that Showtime’s long simmering deal to finance the completion of The Other Side of the Wind has finally been consummated. Apparently the contract was as […]
Here’s a very nice piece on OSOTW featuring comments from John Huston, Susan Strasberg and Gary Graver, written for the March, 1976 issue of AFTER DARK, a New York based magazine that billed itself as “The National Magazine of Entertainment.” *** ORSON WELLES AND FIVE YEARS OF “THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND” By VIOLA […]
One of the saddest things to realize about Orson Welles late career was the lack of support he received not only from studios, but from the “bankable major stars.” One only has to recall the story of Welles trying to cast any of the above actors for the leading role in The Big Brass Ring, […]
Thanks to Colin Hand for sending along this link to a nice interview with Frank Marshall about his latest movie, Eight Below, which also covers Marshall’s long association with Peter Bogdanovich. However the highlight for Welles fans is a tidbit about Marshall’s ongoing involvement in producingThe Other Side of The Wind, which is apparently now […]
An essay on the making of Orson Welles “The Other Side of the Wind” can be found on the Legacy portion of Wellesnet. Please visit the “TOSOTW” page here.
