The Other Side of the Wind
by Orson Welles
with John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Robert Random, Susan Strasberg
(Usa, France, Iran, 122’, 1970-1976, 2018)
In 1970, legendary director Orson Welles began filming what would ultimately be his final cinematic opus with a cast of luminaries that included John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg and Welles’s partner during his later years, Oja Kodar. Beset by financial issues, the production ultimately stretched to 1976 and soon gained industry-wide notoriety, never to be completed or released. More than a thousand reels of film languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when producers Frank Marshall (who served as a production manager on Wind during in its initial shooting) and Filip Jan Rymsza spearheaded efforts to have Welles’s vision completed more than 30 years after his death. Featuring a new score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand and assembled by a technical team including Oscar- winning editor Bob Murawski, The Other Side of the Wind tells the story of famed filmmaker J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood after years in self-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie. Although heterosexual, the director falls in love with the movie’s leading man. As stated by Joseph McBride, while dealing with the theme of homosexuality, the movie tries to explain Welles’ vision of the actor/director relationship, or between “man” and “God”. This film, says McBride, “is Welles’ 8½, a meditation on art and on what cinema is”.
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