Film historian Joseph McBride recently took part in a remote video talk with members of Milwaukee Film. McBride, author of three books on Welles, discussed the 1946 thriller The Stranger, as well as The Other Side of the Wind, which was shot in the 1970s and completed in 2018. McBride was a cast member and […]
Dennis Hopper makes an all-too-brief appearance in Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, but the relationship between the two filmmakers and their careers interested an Australian researcher. A paper, The Friendship Between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper: A Study of Similarities Between Two Hollywood Exiles, was recently published by Joanna Elena Batsakis at […]
By MIKE TEAL Fifty years ago today, on February 9th, 1970, the renowned Italian arthouse filmmaker Michaelangelo Antonioni’s first American film, Zabriskie Point, was released. It was a story about two young counter-culture radicals who steal an airplane and then travel to the desert to escape. Four years earlier, Antonioni’s first English-language film, Blow-Up, […]
The Other Side of the Wind found itself on close to fifty Best of the Year lists in the weeks following its release in fall 2018. A year later, Orson Welles’ posthumous offering has been hailed by a dozen media outlets as among the Best Films of the 2010s. The Other Side of the […]
Film scholar Massimiliano Studer published a paper in Italy today examining how the creation of the Motion Picture Association of America changed the climate in Hollywood and led Orson Welles to explore sexuality more explicitly with The Other Side of the Wind. “I started this essay during the writing of my paper presented to a […]
The Other Side of the Wind will get a special screening Wednesday, December 11, at Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona with the film library’s director, noted Orson Welles scholar Esteve Riambau, providing an introduction. It is fitting that the film finally get a big screen showing in Welles’ beloved Spain since the story’s roots date […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film critic Alessandro Aniballi looks at the film and Welles’ treatment of death.) D for Death By ALESSANDRO ANIBALLI The Other Side of […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Massimiliano Studer, co-founder of Formacinema, and author of Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles, looks […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. In this translation permitted by Cabiria, Italian film scholar Alberto Anile offers his views on the merits and compromises of the finished film.) Merits and compromises of a reconstruction […]
(Editor’s note: The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of The Other of the Wind. Cabiria has kindly allowed us to run English translations of several essays. In this installment, Wellesnet’s Ray Kelly shares his thoughts.) Reflections on the […]
The Italian film magazine Cabiria has pulled together reflections from a dozen Orson Welles scholars across the globe to mark the one-year anniversary of the release of The Other of the Wind. Welles’ long-unfinished 1970s film was completed last year by producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza, executive producer Peter Bogdanovich and editor Bob Murawski. […]
By NICOLAS CICCONE Orson Welles’s last completed film, The Other Side of the Wind, began as a story set not near Hollywood in the U.S., but instead around the bullfighting rings of Spain. Welles largely outlined this version of the story in a 1963 Albert Maysles film Orson Welles in Spain, which can be found […]
Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) weighed in on The Other Side of the Wind in a nearly five-minute YouTube video from Trailers From Hell. Dante is well-versed in the project having been a friend of the late cinematographer Gary Graver and worked with The Other Side of the Wind actor Joseph McBride (Mr. Pister) […]
The Italian film journal Bianco e Nero (Black and White) has published a special issue looking at the role streaming services like Netflix play in the future of cinema. The latest issue of the oldest film publication in Italy includes Rewriting the Wind, an illuminating piece by author Alberto Anile (Orson Welles in Italy) […]
IT: Chapter 2, the followup to most successful horror movie of all time, arrives in theaters today. Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader are the stars, but Wellesians will want to look for a cameo by Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich, who played director Brooks Otterlake in The Other Side of the Wind, again plays a […]
By RAY KELLY Maybe it was kismet, fate or divine intervention, but it took four decades for the perfect moment to arrive to complete Hollywood’s most famous unfinished movie, The Other Side of the Wind. That moment, according to the film’s post-production team, came in the form of a generous, supportive backer; state-of-the-art technology; and […]
By RAY KELLY Santa Claus will not be leaving a The Other Side of the Wind Blu-ray/DVD underneath the Christmas tree this year. Producer Filip Jan Rymsza told supporters of a 2015 crowdfunding effort in a posting today that a promised “perk” of a Blu-ray/DVD of the Orson Welles film, as well as as a […]
By RAY KELLY Throughout Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, leading man John Dale never utters a single line of dialogue. But Bob Random, the Canadian actor who played Dale, is hardly silent as the one-year anniversary of the film’s debut at the Venice Film Festival approaches. He said his emotions upon watching […]
Nearly a year after its world premiere in Venice, The Other Side of the Wind is still popping up at film festivals around the globe. The Orson Welles feature will be an official selection at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and perhaps the most […]
Netflix is pitching the Morgan Neville documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead for Emmy Award consideration. The entertaining documentary looks at the making of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind. There has been no indication yet that the streaming giant will pitch the Welles feature or Ryan Suffern’s informative documentary short, A Final […]
