Two overseas film festivals have added Hopper/Welles to their lineups.
The documentary created by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski from footage shot by Orson Welles more than 50 years ago will be screened in the coming days in Australia and Israel. It will be shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 22 and Jerusalem Film Festival on August 30.
The movie had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2020 and was subsequently shown at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles and New York Film Festival last year. (There has been no word yet on whether the film will be available on streaming or home video.)
The previously unseen interview footage assembled by The Other Side of the Wind producer Rymsza and editor Murawski captures an engrossing conversation between Welles and Easy Rider director Dennis Hopper in November 1970.
The extensive black and white footage shot with two 16mm cameras was meant not merely for Hopper’s cameo in The Other Side of the Wind, but, according to Beatrice Welles, for use in a never-produced, and never publicly discussed, documentary by her father on Hopper.
Two cameras filmed the approximately two-and-a-half-hour conversation, which has been trimmed to 130 minutes. Director of photography Gary Graver shot 13 black and white 16mm rolls and camera operator John Willheim another 11 for a total of 4 hours and 48 minutes of available footage.
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