Italian film scholar Massimiliano Studer has explored the archives at the National Cinema Museum of Turin and found an unfinished early 1970s script by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar.
A new podcast series based on the unpublished Polly Platt memoir It Was Worth It delves into her involvement in the The Other Side of the Wind and the relationship between Orson Welles and his collaborator, Oja Kodar. The multi-episode Polly Platt: The Invisible Woman is part of the You Must Remember This podcasts produced by Karina Longworth. It details how Platt was […]
Britain’s The Oldie magazine recently dug out an interesting piece written a few years back by the late filmmaker Andrew Sinclair (Under Milk Wood) recalling an unfinished 1970s project starring Orson Welles and Oliver Reed. Sinclair was set to direct Reed, Welles and Oja Kodar in a movie called Rider. He had previously worked with […]
By RAY KELLY On a sunny Monday afternoon a week before Christmas, Peter Bogdanovich, Filip Jan Rymsza and Frank Marshall gathered in an editing suite at Tribeca West in Los Angeles to view the progress made on the completion of The Other Side of the Wind. As his colleagues arrived, Rymsza explained that editor Bob Murawski […]
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 […]
Oja Kodar made her first public comments about Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind since signing the deal with Netflix that allowed its long-awaited completion to begin. Speaking with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Kodar said Friday that she has opted not to see the finished film until its official release. (It will premiere at the […]
A fashion model, who once lived at the Hollywood home of Orson Welles with her mother, has been sentenced by a Serbian court to two years and 10 months in jail. Katarina Rebraca was ordered to repay $227,000 from the money she embezzled from a cancer charity that bore her name. It took prosecutors eight years […]
With decades of legal battles over, the negative for Orson Welles’ Don Quixote is in the hands of Oja Kodar.
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