Nearly a year after its world premiere in Venice, The Other Side of the Wind is still popping up at film festivals around the globe.
The Orson Welles feature will be an official selection at the 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival — the largest film festival in the Czech Republic and perhaps the most prestigious film festival in Eastern Europe.
Producer Filip Jan Rymsza will be on hand for the screening there.
Every year, KVIFF presents some 150 motion pictures from all over the world and draws 13,000 guests.
The Other Side of the Wind will be screened from DCP on June 29 with additional festival showings slated for July 2, 3 and 5.
It is billed by festival organizers as Welles “take on Hollywood, European film, and his own legacy.”
“After many years away, passionate hunter and drunk J. J. “Jake” Hannaford (John Huston) returns to Hollywood in order to relaunch his once famous directing career. At a glitzy party, surrounded by faithful collaborators, rivals and sycophants, Hannaford screens his unfinished movie, in which a silent pair of lovers travels across a photogenic and empty American landscape. While this film within a film parodies such works as Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point, the shots of the party and its scurrying guests refer back to the death of the studio system and to a new Hollywood that is fascinated by innovations from abroad. Left unfinished and now reconstructed, Welles’ picture was to mark his grand return.”
Recently, The Other Side of the Wind opened the 21st Nitrate Film Festival after the Yugoslav Film Archive Day festivities on June 6.
The Other Side of the Wind is, of course, available on Netflix for subscribers in 190 countries.
Produced by Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall, it was included on four dozen Best Films of 2018 lists.
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