Magazines, websites and newspapers are starting to run notes of interest on Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, which will debut at the 75th annual Venice Film Festival on August 31.
The Other Side of the Wind scored a spot in Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview, which noted the film will stream on Netflix on November 2.
Among the revelations in the brief piece was that producers Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall discovered that Welles shot nearly 100 hours of footage during a nearly six-year span. All of the 16mm and 35mm footage was digitally scanned for 4K by Technicolor.
The completed 122-minute film was edited by Oscar winner Bob Murawski, who will be honored for his work with the first-ever Campari Passion for Film Award at the Venice Film Festival.
“I was very aware of everything that happened throughout the course of Orson’s career and how he felt betrayed,” Murawski told Entertainment Weekly. “We (did) our homework to figure out what Orson wanted.”
The movie is still weeks away from its premiere, but that hasn’t stopped speculation about its chances in the upcoming awards season.
Typically, this chatter is tweeted by overzealous fans, but The Awards Connection has suggested that The Other Side of the Wind may be the “dark horse that could turn the entire race on its head.”
The website put forth that Welles and longtime companion Oja Kodar could be nominated for Best Original Screenplay and / or Welles and Murawski for Best Film Editing. (Venice Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera has already lauded Murawski’s “masterful reconstruction” of The Other Side of the Wind.)
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