The Orson Welles Film You Can See For the First Time Was His Most Personal Work
“The Other Side of the Wind,” which you can see for the first time ever on Netflix, was a Welles passion project based on elements of his own life.
“The Other Side of the Wind,” which you can see for the first time ever on Netflix, was a Welles passion project based on elements of his own life.
The long-incomplete “lost film” is a different style for Welles, but it’s also full of nods that consciously echoed the lauded auteur’s own life and career, and a changing Hollywood.
Behind the scenes of the unprecedented restoration: How digital technology was used to solve an analog nightmare, Danny Huston ADR’ing his father’s dialogue, ILM effects shots, cracking Welles’ unique editing vision, and more.
A fascinating look inside the making of “The Other Side of the Wind,” also know as “the greatest movie never released.”
Venice: Welles’ long-lost final film feels like it exists inside its late director’s head.
Welles’ final movie is set to take festival season by storm, starting with a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week.
While the details of a theatrical release plan from Netflix have not yet been announced, the veteran producer expects the film to make its debut in the coming months.
Netflix pulled the feature from Cannes Film Festival consideration earlier this year.
Filip Jan Rymsza, the producer behind Welles’ final film, says “everyone loses” in the war of words between Netflix and Cannes.
An old-fashioned film industry and the granddaddy of film festivals just got cockblocked by Netflix, but why punish Orson Welles? He’s dead.
Orson Welles’ legendary unfinished final film played to a small room of Hollywood elites.
Netflix is funding the completion of the movie and is planning a 2018 release.