The Other Side of the Wind

Uncommon card · No. 85699

The Other Side of the Wind is a 2018 satirical drama film co-written, co-edited, and directed by Orson Welles, and posthumously released after 48 years in development. The film stars John Huston, Bob Random, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, and Oja Kodar. Intended by Welles to be his American directorial comeback after years spent abroad, the film began shooting in 1970 and resumed on and off until 1976. Welles continued to work intermittently on editing the project into the 1980s, but it became embroiled in financial, legal, and political complications, which prevented it from being completed. Despite Welles's death in 1985, several attempts were made at reconstructing the unfinished film. The unreleased results were called "the Holy Grail of cinema". In 2014, the rights were acquired by Royal Road, and the completed project was overseen by Bogdanovich and producer Frank Marshall. The story uses a film-within-a-film narrative, which follows the last day in the life of an aging Hollywood...

Read on Wikipedia