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 a consultant on its completion.
A Milwaukee native and graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, McBride is a biographer, screenwriter and professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University.
During the course of the 48-minute April 29 appearance, McBride provided an overview of Welles’ Hollywood career and fielded questions submitted by Milwaukee Film members.
The video — courtesy of Milwaukee Film — can be viewed below.
Milwaukee Film is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to building a robust, community-based film culture in the Greater Milwaukee area. It was was founded in 2008 by Chris Abele, Jonathan Jackson, Bill Haberman, and Carmen Haberman.
Since 2009, it has organized the Milwaukee Film Festival, which has reported attendance in recent years in excess of 80,000.
For additional information on the organization, visit mkefilm.org
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