One of the first filmmakers to see The Other Side of the Wind says he was “gobsmacked” by what the late Orson Welles accomplished more than 40 years ago. Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) has seen a 117-minute edit — minus its Michel Legrand score — twice, including a “friends and family screening” in Santa Monica, […]
Dorian Bond, who worked as a personal assistant for Orson Welles during a year-long stint 50 years ago, has written a book recounting those days, Me and Mr. Welles. Bond was a 22-year-old film school student when he was hired by Welles’ longtime private secretary, Ann Rogers, to deliver ten 400-foot rolls of 35mm film, and […]
By RAY KELLY The Eyes of Orson Welles, a Mark Cousins documentary promising fresh insight into the life and art of the late filmmaker, will premiere as a Cannes Classics Official Selection at the 71st Cannes Film Festival next month. Directed, written, filmed and narrated by Cousins (The Story of Film), the documentary is based upon […]
The irony that a posthumous release from a revered independent filmmaker should not debut at the Cannes Film Festival because of its dispute with upstart distributor was not lost on Variety. Film critic Owen Gleiberman deftly explained how Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind has become a casualty in the fight between Cannes […]
The prestigious Cannes Film Festival runs May 8-19.
Steven Spielberg will donate the iconic “Rosebud” sled, made for Orson Welles’ landmark 1941 film Citizen Kane, to the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Spielberg told BBC Radio 1 he considered the balsa wood prop sled to be one of his prized possessions. “There were three made to burn at the […]
A photograph captures the recording of Michel Legrand’s score for the Orson Welles movie “The Other Side of the Wind.”
Michel Legrand, 86, a multiple Oscar and Grammy Award winner.
By RAY KELLY Compared to other Orson Welles projects, relatively little has been written about Too Much Johnson, the Mercury Theatre’s ill-fated 1938 stage comedy, which would have included his first use of film in a commercial project. A two-week tryout of Too Much Johnson commenced at the Stony Creek Theatre in Branford, Connecticut in […]
John Huston talked about Orson Welles and “The Other Side of the Wind” in this 1981 interview.
The French-based distributor plans a 4K release on home video with extras.
A film adaptation of King Lear, Shakespeare’s tale of old age and mortality, was one of the last projects conceived by Orson Welles.