Rosebaum also touched briefly on his advising role for The Other Side of the Wind in an interview conducted by Matthew Asprey Gear.
“I’ve been asked to serve as a consultant on this project. So far this work has consisted only of a few exchanges with Filip Jan Rymsza, one of the producers, mostly involving discussion about several scripts and treatments; eventually it should involve seeing a rough cut. There are many voices and individuals involved in this work, and I see a major part of my role as representing and defending the viewpoint of Oja Kodar, as coauthor and lead actress. Even the film’s title is hers, and, as I discovered a few years ago, on the basis on my own deductions, and then confirmed with Oja, she even directed one major sequence, but she’s been largely kept out of the loop, for a variety of reasons,” Rosenbaum told Gear.
His description of “many voices and individuals” supports reports we have heard that producers are consulting with Welles experts as they make plans to complete the film.
Rosenbaum worked with Kodar on the limited edition publication of two unfilmed Welles scripts The Big Brass Ring and The Cradle Will Rock. He is the author of Discovering Orson Welles and edited This Is Orson Welles. He served as a consultant on the 1998 re-edit of Touch of Evil.
The full text can also be found on Jonathan Rosenbaum’s website.
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