The prestigious New York Film Festival will present the East Coast premiere of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will also screen Morgan Neville’s companion documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, which looks at the last 15 years of Welles’ life.
The 56th annual festival, which runs September 28 through October 14, announced several special screenings today, including a special showing of Rex Ingram’s World War I epic The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The long-awaited The Other Side of the Wind, shot four decades ago but only recently completed, will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, August 31. It will have its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado during Labor Day weekend.
Welles shot The Other Side of the Wind between 1970 and 1976. It remained unedited and unreleased until 2018 when it was completed for Netflix by Bogdanovich, producers Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall, and Academy Award winning editor Bob Murawski.
The movie will have a theatrical release and be streamed to 125 million Netflix subscribers in 190 countries on November 2.
The Other Side of the Wind takes place at the 70th birthday party of maverick director J.J. “Jake” Hannaford (Huston), who is struggling to complete his comeback film during the rise of New Hollywood. Attending the party are successful young directors, like Brooks Otterlake (Bogdanovich), hangers-on and critics. Hannaford dies at the conclusion of the party. Welles’ movie recounts Hannaford’s final hours using a mix of 16mm and 35mm color and black-and-white film shot at the party, along with scenes from his unfinished movie, which stars Kodar and Bob Random.
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